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JUBILEE J 
YEAR 

Fiftieth Anniversary 

OF THE ORGANIZATION OF THE 

FIRST 

Congregational Church 
and society 

OF 
DETROIT, MICHIGAN. 



SATURDAY, SUNDAY AND MONDAY, 



December 8th, oth and ioth, 



1894. 




A Jubilee shall that Fiftieth Year be unto you." 

LEVITICUS xxv 



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COPYRIGHT. 

1895. 




Rev. Harvey D. Kitchel, D. D. 

1848-1864. 



WINN & HAMMOND 
Printers, Binders, Engravers 

DETROIT 



INTRODUCTORY 



AT the annual meeting of the First Congregational Church of 
^ Detroit, held on Wednesday evening, January 17, 1894, a 
resolution was unanimously adopted to celebrate in a fitting manner 
the Jubilee, or fiftieth, anniversary of the organization of the Church, 
and to this end the pastor was instructed to appoint a committee of 
seven, of which two should be members designated by the Ecclesias- 
tical Society connected with the Church, and to which the pastor 
should be added as its chairman. To this committee was referred, in 
the words of the resolution, "the whole subject of a suitable celebra- 
tion of this interesting event, with power to make such arrangements, 
adopt such a program, fix upon such a time, and incur such needful 
expenses as they may, in their discretion, deem necessary and proper." 
In accordance with the terms of these instructions the following 
committee was subsequently appointed: Mr. Henry E. Baker, 
Mr. George R. Angell, Mr. Ford H. Rogers, Miss Martha S. Warner, 
Miss Caroline Crosman, Mr. Frank C. Pingree and Mr. Henry A. 
Chaney,-the last-named two representing the Society. Subsequently, 
by the sudden and lamented death of Mr. Chaney, and the resignation 
of Miss Crosman, who was so closely confined to the bedside of a 
sick sister as to prevent her attendance upon the meetings, Mr. Frank 
E. Robson and Mrs. Walter P. Manton were added to the committee. 
Rev. W. H. Davis, D. D., was made chairman of the committee, 
and Miss Warner was chosen its secretary. After various meetings 
and extended consultation a complete program of exercises was 
formulated, and is published in full immediately following this intro- 
ductory statement. It was determined that the observance of the 
anniversary should extend over a period of three days, and that the 
same dates should be adopted as were fixed upon at the Quarter 
Centennial celebration, viz.: December 8, 9 and 10, and fur the same 
reason, to wit : to avoid a conflict with the usual holiday festivities, 
and because this period is midway between the first meeting held 



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looking to the formation of the Church, and the date of its actual 
organization. Deacon George M. Lane was invited to prepare the 
Historical Address, and Deacon Henry E. Baker the Memorial, having 
reference to the deceased members during the quarter-centennial 
period just closing. The committee also invited the preparation of 
two original hymns to be sung during the exercises. Invitations to 
attend the anniversary meetings were directed to be sent to all former 
members of the Church residing in and away from the city, whose 
names and residences were known, and special requests of like purport 
were ordered transmitted to the two surviving pastors, Rev. Drs. 
Harvey D. Kitchel and Addison Ballard, also soliciting their participa- 
tion in the exercises. An urgent invitation to be present was likewise 
forwarded to Mrs. Marietta P. Cook, one of the three surviving charter 
members, living at South Orange, N. J., at the age of 86. 

The program of exercises, as agreed upon, and hereinafter 
published complete, was fully carried out. The church was tastefully 
and appropriately decorated, and all the services were very generally 
participated in by the members and a goodly number of former 
attendants and outside friends. Special arrangements were made to 
secure the presence of all aged and infirm members to share with 
those more free from disability the peculiar privileges and enjoyment 
of the rare occasion. In brief, it may here be said : After a cordial 
address of welcome by the pastor at the opening service on Saturday 
evening, December 8, the Historical Address was read by Deacon 
Lane. On Sunday morning a discourse appropriate to the time was 
delivered by the pastor; at noon the Sunday school held a special 
session, devoted chiefly to addresses of a reminiscential character; in 
the afternoon at 3:30 the Communion of the Lord's Supper was 
observed, Rev. Drs. Kitchel and Ballard officiating; and in the evening 
the Memorial Address was read by Deacon Baker. On Monday 
evening, from 7 to 8:30, a most enjoyable reception was given in the 
chapel to the three living pastors of the Church and Mrs. Davis, wife 
of the present pastor, and the three surviving members of the original 
thirteen, viz.: Deacon Francis Raymond, Mrs. Ruth Raymond and 
Mrs. Marietta P. Cook. This was largely attended. Light refresh- 
ments were served by the ladies of the Church during the evening, 
while in the main audience room a musical program of great excellence 
was rendered by the combined choir, chorus and orchestra connected 
with the Sunday school. Following this musical entertainment came 



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brief services of cordial and fraternal greeting on the part of sister 
churches in the city, delivered by Rev. Marcus A. Brownson, D. D., in 
behalf of the Presbyterians, Rev. Rufus W. Clark, D. D., representing 
the Episcopalians, Rev. Donald MacLaurin, D. D., speaking for the 
Baptists, and Rev. Heman P. De Forest, D. D., bearing the salutations 
of the other Congregational churches. Rev. Dr. Richard T. Savin, 
who had expected to respond in behalf of the Methodist Episcopal 
churches, was prevented by sudden and serious illness. To his 
message of sincere regret a response of sympathy and good wishes for 
his speedy recovery was sent by vote of the assembled audience. 
The interesting services were brought to a close and those present 
dismissed with the benediction pronounced by Rev. Dr. Ballard. 

The various addresses and other interesting matter connected 
with this rare anniversary will be found fully set forth in the succeed- 
ing pages. Having taken a long look backward, the "Old First" now 
turns its face towards its second half-century. 

" Hitherto hath the Lord helped us." May He be our all- 
sufficient Helper still, and evermore! 

Detroit, Mich., Dec. 25, 1894. 





The First Church Edifice. 

Southwest Corner of Jefferson Avenue and Beaubien Street. Dedicated Aug. 30, 
(Reprinted from Silas Farmer's History of Detroit— by permission.) 



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JjF \ \ / ) "1Fn tbe name of our (Bob, we will set up our banners. 

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program of Services. 

Saturday Evening, December 8. 

Organ Prelude — Offertory in D Minor, . . . Batiste 

DoXOLOGY — Congregation rising. 

Invocation 

Lord's Prayer. 

Anthem — Chorus, "Arise, Shine, for thy Light is come," . Buck 
Address of Welcome, . . Pastor William H. Davis 

Hymn — "O Worship the King," 

Historical Address, .... Deacon Geo. M. Lane 

Anthem — "Oh, be Joyful," Mosenthal 

Prayer, Dr. Ballard 

Hymn — "I Love Thy Kingdom, Lord." 

Benediction, Dr. Davis 

Postlude — Festival March, Meyerbeer 



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PROGRAM OF SERVICES. 



SunfcaB Aborning, December 9. 

Organ Prelude — " Communion," . . . . Salome 

Anthem — " Praise the Lord," . . . . Randegger 

INVOCATION — Closing with the Lord's Prayer. .... 

HYMN — " Holy, holy, holy," 

Responsive Reading— Selection 23rd, in "The Church Hymnary." 

Gloria 

Scripture Lesson, Dr. Ballard 

Hymn — " O God, our Help in ages past," ..... 

Prayer — (Choir response), ..... Dr. Kitchel 
Offertory — Bass Solo, "Tis Enough," . . . Mendelssohn 

Notices. 

Anthem — Jubilate Amen," Max Bruch 

Sermon — "A Jubilee shall that fiftieth year be unto you." Lev. xxv: n. 

The Pastor 

Hymn — "In the Name of our God," . Miss Caroline Crosman 



Tune: Lyons. 



In the name of our God, 

Our banners we raise, 

And to Him we sing 

Our glad hymns of praise. 

'Tis He who hath brought us 

Thus far on our way ! 

'Tis He who is ever 

Our strength and our stay. 



In the name of our God, 
Our banners we raise, 
And joyfully tread 
His merciful ways. 
Whatever befalleth 
He still giveth aid, 
In joy and in sorrow 
Through sunshine and shade. 



Our banners of light 

We raise in His name, 

As onward we press 

His love to proclaim. 

The hand that hath led us 

Through years that are gone, 

That hand will still guide us 

And lead to His throne. 



Prayer, 
Benediction, 
POSTLUDE— " Finale,' 



The Pastor 

Dr. Ballard 

Wagner 



PROGRAM OF SERVICES. 



Sun&ag Scbeol, 12:30. 

Orchestral Prelude. 

Hymn — " Sweetly Dawns the Sabbath Morning." .... 

Invocation, Supt. John Davis 

Scripture Reading, Supt. R. W. King 

Introduction of Superintendents, Pastor William H. Davis 
Hymn — "Sweetly Sing the Love of Jesus." ..... 

Reminiscences, Supt. Geo. M. Lane 

Then and Now, Supt. H. E. Baker 

Offering 

Hymn—" Follow Thou Me." 

Greetings, 

Review, 

Outlook, 

Hymn — "Onward Christian Soldiers." 

The Lord's Prayer 

Benediction, Dr. Ballard 



Rev. Dr. Ballard 

Supt. Allan Bourn 

Supt. Wm. H. Strong 



SunDag &ftemoon, 3:30. 

Organ Prelude — "Traumerei," . . . . Schumann 

Anthem — "Tis Midnight, and on Olive's brow," . . Bradbury 

Reception of Members 

Prayer, Dr. Kitchel 

Hymn — " Almighty Lord, to Thee we Raise," . Mrs. Geo. M. Lane 



Tune: Park Street. 



Almighty Lord, to Thee we raise 
This day our jubilee of praise; 
Join heart and voice in grateful song, 
For praises to our God belong. 

Since first this church, a chosen band, 
Was gathered by Divine command, 
The Father's love its work has owned 
And all the years with blessings crowned. 



There stands to-day a ransomed band, 
Immortal now, at His right hand, 
Who from this haven of their love 
Have gone to join the church above. 

While we, His people who remain 
For prayer and service "in His name, 
Wait glad and trustful, sure that He 
Will to the end our Leader be. 



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Thou, Father, Son and Holy Ghost, 
Art worshiped by the heavenly host, 
The Triune God, whom we adore, 
Keep this church Thine for ever more. 

Address, Dr. Ballard 

Hymn-" Here at Thy Table, Lord," . . . 

Communion 

Hymn — " Rock of Ages, Cleft for Me," \ 

Benediction, Dr. Philo R. Hurd 

At 6:30 a Special Reminiscent Service of the Y. P. S. C. E. in the 
Chapel. 

Sunfcag JBvc\\U\Q t 7:30. 

Organ Prelude— " Adagio," . . . . . . Liszt 

Anthem — "Into the Silent Land," . . . . A. R. Gaul 

Scripture Reading, Rev. N. S. Wright 

Prayer ... Rev. N. S. Wright 

Hymn — " For all the Saints," . . . 

Memorial Address, .... Deacon H. E. Baker 

Anthem — " Holy, holy, Lord God of Sabaoth," . . Gounod 

Pastoral Prayer 

Hymn — ''Jerusalem the Golden," 

Benediction, Dr. Ballard 

Postlude — " Pilgrim's Chorus," ..... Wagner 



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/Ifconoag ^Evening, December 10, 7:30. 

A reception for the former Pastors, Rev. H. D. Kitchel, D. D., 
and Rev. Addison Ballard, D. D., and also to the Rev. W. 
H, Davis, D. D., and Mrs. Davis, and for the only surviving 
charter members, Deacon and Mrs. Francis Raymond, and 
Mrs. Marietta P. Cook, was held in the Church House, 
during which the following special musical program of organ, 
orchestral and choral music was rendered in the Church : 



War March, 

Orchestra and Organ. 

'•When Onward I am Gazing," 

Choir. 

Tenor Solo, 

Mr. F. L. Frazer. 

" Homage to Wagner," 



Orchestra 



Alto Solo—" Magic Song," 



Miss M. Welz. 

Organ Solo — "Festival March," 

Orla D. Allen. 

Soprano Solo — " My All," . 

Miss Virginia Eastman. 

Bridal Chorus 



Choir. 



Mendelssohn 

Gade 

Selected 

H enrich 

Helmund 

Calkin 

Bo Jim 

Cowen 



Bass SOLO — "The Wind and the Sea," . . . . 

Mr. S. I. Slade. 

Intermezzo, . . Mascagni 

Orchestra. 

irnter*Benominational ©reettnQS from Gitg pastors, 8:30. 
Hymn — " Come, Thou Almighty King," 

Rev. Richard T. Savin, D. D. Rev. Marcus A. Brownson, D. D. 
Rev. Rufus W. Clark, D. D. 



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PROGRAM OF SERVICES. 



Anniversary Anthem— Music and words by . C. W. Henrich 

(Accompanied by Orchestra and Organ.) 

Back two score years and ten, As fleeting years passed on, 

A child was born to earth, By faithful, loving care, 

Which honored God and men, This child of God had won 

A child of noble birth. A power felt everywhere. 



From its bright smile there shined 
A ray of hope and cheer, 

Which soothed the troubled mind, 
And banished every fear. 



'Mid sorrow, pain and woe, 
A broken heart 't could mend. 

SIN had no fiercer foe, 

And RIGHT no truer friend. 



This child — not flesh and blood — 

Was reared by GOD'S great Love, 
And named "A Church of God" 

To join with that above. 

Prayer: 

O God, in whose great hand 

All power in earth doth lie; 
Guide this Thy Christian band, 

And let its works ne'er die. 

Rev. Donald MacLaurin, D. D. 

Rev. Heman P. Deforest, D. D. 

Hymn— " Blest be the Tie that Binds," 

Benediction, . . . ... . Dr. Ballard 

Postlude 

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The Second Church Edifice. 

Southwest Corner of Fort and Wayne Streets. Dedicated September 



1854. 



PASTORAL ADDRESS OF WELCOME. 

WILLIAM H. DAVIS, D. D. 

FATHERS, brethren and Christian friends: We are met to-night 
to keep the golden birthday of this Christian church, and 
I stand her representative in this honored presence of friends 
of "yesterday, to-day, and forever," to extend in her behalf 
our most cordial greeting and welcome to these jubilee services of 
commemoration. 

If no apology is needed for the keeping of such anniversaries in 
our homes as we remember each other's birthdays, surely none is 
needed for holding in precious remembrance "the organization of a 
Christian church whose faith and works have been builded into the 
lives of two generations of Christian men and women. Twenty-five 
years ago to-night we were assembled to celebrate the quarter- 
centennial of our church fellowship. Already at that time Congrega- 
tionalism had a goodly history in the Peninsular State, with her 
175 churches, 150 pastors and 10,000 church members. But since 
that historic hour her growth has been greatly increased, until we 
now number in Michigan 350 Congregational churches, with over 
300 Christian ministers and a membership of nearly, if not quite, 
30,000 souls. In these fertile years of service and of progress the 
First Church of Detroit has had no small part, for her missionary 
zeal, her Christian benevolence, her prayers and labors, have entered 
largely into the growth of our Michigan Zion, and she herself has 
increased in numerical strength -as in spiritual and social power, until 
she has become institutional in her spirit and in the range of her 
ministration. 

Fitting it is, then, beloved, that we keep festival over the coming 
of this golden year in our history, and remember with loving 
regard those early lives that builded better than they knew this 
church of the living God. Therefore, to the renewal of personal 
associations, to the panorama-like review of her half-century of life 
and service, to the memory of her sainted dead, and to the glad 
hospitality of her living members, we bid you all welcome. 

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18 THROUGH FIFTY YEARS. 

Especially do we have welcome in our hearts for the honored and 
beloved pastors, Dr. Kitchel and Dr. Ballard, whose presence here is 
an occasion of heartfelt thanksgiving to God that His providence has 
permitted us to share in the fellowship of this hour, for to you, 
Dr. Kitchel, more than to any other, was given the work of moulding 
the life and character of this church of your ripest ministry with an 
impress of loyalty to God's truth and a willingness to serve men, 
which has remained to this day. We remember, my brother, Dr. 
Ballard, that you stood twenty-five years ago to-night as I now stand 
in the pastoral office of this church, and that your words greeted the 
friends who gathered to that memorable hour. It is with deep 
gratitude that we look upon your face and hear your voice once more 
among us. 

While for our honored friends, Deacon and Mrs. Raymond, and 
Mrs. Cook, the only surviving members of that little company of 
thirteen who fifty years ago banded together as a Christian church, 
we have a most cordial and tender welcome, and as the faithful clerk 
of this church through the entire period of her history, a service 
unmatched in the record of the churches of the northwest, I assure 
you, our beloved Deacon, of our hearty appreciation and love; long 
may you go in and out among us as an office-bearer and member of 
the "Old First" Church. 

We greet also the children of this church — a goodly company — 
whose households of faith have already grown into centres of 
Christian influence and power, and give you hearty welcome to this 
family reunion, glad of your prosperity and the growing "olive plants" 
around your altars. 

And to our friends who have gone out from among us into other 
communions, our honored sisterhood of churches in this city, to my 
brother pastors and all Christian friends everywhere whoses heart turn 
toward us in this "festival of years," we meet you, beloved, with the 
right hand of Christian fellowship and love. May these hours of 
reminiscence and friendship generate a larger loyalty to the memory 
and truth of the great past and give us more enthusiasm for the 
coming triumphs of the greater future. And so may grace, mercy and 
peace abide with us now and for evermore. Amen! 



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HISTORICAL ADDRESS. 

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DEACON GEORGE M. LANE. 



AT the quarter-centennial celebration, held twenty-five years since, 
■ Hon. Chas. I. Walker, by invitation, delivered the Historical 
Address. It was an admirable record of the history of this church for 
that period, and its presentation 
was in a manner which might 
be expected from one so com- 
petent to fill the place and 
the privilege appointed for him. 
It has occurred to me many 
times during the past few 
weeks, and the thought may 
also have come to some of you, 
what a rare gratification would 
have been given us all could 
Judge Walker again have stood 
before us this evening and con- 
tinued the sketch for the second 
quarter-centennial of our church 
history. Not only this, but 
there would have been a sin- 
gular fitness in such a service 
which would have added mate- 
rial interest to the occasion. Deacon Chas. I. Walker. 
Though his life is still spared, 3 86i-i86 5 ; 1866-1895. 
and he is numbered with us, a 

great affliction has come upon him, and its shadow has fallen across our 
threshold. This has placed an insuperable barrier to the realization 
of such a pleasure. Had not all hope of recovery been taken from us, 
Ave would pray earnestly that this illness be removed, and he be 
restored to us in all his former strength and mental vigor ; but in the 
absence of such a hope, surely our sympathies are extended to him 
and to those who belong to him, with the earnest petition that he be 

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THROUGH FIFTY YEARS. 



spared pain and weariness, and that every possible pleasure and 
comfort may abide with him during all his remaining days, be they 
few or many. 

The history of the first twenty-five years of this church having 
once been so carefully prepared, it would be unwise that it should be 

repeated in all its first detail. 
In fact, time this evening would 
not permit such a presentation. 
Much will therefore be omitted, 
or with only a brief mention, 
while that which is important 
will be more or less condensed. 
And in this connection it is 
only just that credit should be 
given to Judge Walker's address 
for material aid in the prepara- 
tion of the record of the early 
history of the church now 
narrated. 

Until near the close of 1844 
there was no Congregational 
church in Detroit, and the de- 
nomination was weak in Mich- 
igan. At that time only fifty- 
two churches of our order 
existed in the State, and 
nearly one-half of those have since then ceased to exist, or have united 
in fellowship with other denominations. Very few of the more 
important places were then occupied, including only Jackson, Grand 
Rapids, Port Huron, Kalamazoo, Romeo, St. Clair and Union City. 
Nearly all the churches organized at that time were in the smaller 
towns and in farming districts, and most of them were under the 
fostering care of that grand organization, The American Home 
Missionary Society. 

The first Congregational church in Michigan was organized in 
1827, at Rochester, and the second a little later at Romeo. The 
population of the whole State at that time did not exceed 250,000 
people, probably less than is now contained in Detroit alone. The 
interior towns and villages were small ; resources were undeveloped ; 













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HISTORICAL ADDRESS. 



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the people were poor, and were struggling with all; the burdens and 
privations incident to the beginnings of life in a new territory. 

The census of 1840 gave Detroit a population of only 9,102, and 
in 1844 the city did not contain to exceed 11,000 inhabitants. 

These 11,000 people found church homes in 12 church organiza- 
tions. The leading Protestant society was the First Presbyterian, of 
about 400 members, under the pastorate of Dr. Geo. Duffield ; this 
was the only society of that denomination in the city, and was strong 
and influential. The Scotch Presbyterian Church was organized in 
1833, and occupied the same location it now holds upon the corner of 
Bates and Farmer streets. Its membership was about 65. The Epis- 
copalians had only a single church of about 300 members, viz.: 
St. Paul's. The buildings occupied by this and the First Presbyterian 
Church stood adjoining each other upon the north side of Woodward 
ave. between Larned and Congress streets. Within the same block 
and upon the corner of Con- 
gress street stood the leading 
Methodist Episcopal church of 
the city. A second society 
had recently been organized, 
which met for worship in the 
United States court room, then 
in the second story of the build- 
ing now occupied by the First 
National Bank. In later years 
the two churches united and 
formed what is now known as 
the Central Methodist Episcopal 
Church, upon the corner of 
Woodward and Adams avenues. 
There was a third Methodist 
church, composed wholly of 
colored people. The total mem- 
bership of these three Methodist 
organizations a little exceeded 
400. The Baptists had two 
churches, viz.: the First Baptist 

of about 150 members, and a second church composed of colored 
people. The German Lutheran Church of about two hundred mem- 




Henry E. Baker. 

Sunday School Superintendent — 1855-1860. 



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bers worshipped in a building upon Monroe avenue. The total 
membership of these nine Protestant organizations amounted to about 
i, 600. The Roman Catholics had three churches, of which St. Anne 
was the oldest ; in fact, the oldest of any in the city. The corner-stone 
of the Cathedral upon Jefferson avenue, corner of St. Antoine street, 
had been laid, but little or nothing more had been done toward the 
superstructure. The denomination was strong, and included probably 
more than one-half the people of the city, their number being estimated 
at 6,000 or more. 

The Organization of the Church. 

Such, in a word, was Detroit and its church accommodations when, 
in 1844, a movement was inaugurated looking to the planting of a 
Congregational church in this the metropolis of the State. In the city 
was a goodly representation of the New England element, some of 
them being among the prominent and leading citizens of the city and 
State. They had connected themselves with the Presbyterians, but 
they still preferred the order of the Congregational Church. There 
was room for church extension in Detroit, and no valid reason was 
apparent why the time was not opportune for the planting of another 
Protestant church. As the matter began to be canvassed among the 
friends of the movement, opposition was developed in certain influ- 
ential quarters, chiefly for denominational reasons. This was continued 
even after it had been fully demonstrated that Congregationalism 
had a right to exist here, and had maintained that privilege by 
actually being born and living a goodly and fairly vigorous life. Yet 
this opposition could not have been general, for even in those churches 
a kindly feeling was manifested by individuals in the early material 
aid rendered the new church. Upon a subscription list still in exis- 
tence for aid in the erection of our first church building in 1845 are 
found pledges from such well-known Presbyterians as Gen. Lewis Cass, 
James F. Joy, Buckminster Wight, Alanson Sheley, Horace Hallock, 
Samuel Zug, Hugh Moffat, Alex. McFarran and others. The help 
these men rendered was not only encouraging but material, and it is a 
pleasure here thankfully to acknowledge it. Also the fact that 
during much, if not all, of this half-century just closed, inter- 
denominational sympathy and fellowship has been quite as kindly 
and hearty as has been the church fellowship in our own order. 



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Upon this subscription paper also are recorded pledges for the 
enterprise somewhat unusual in such cases, viz.: 55 acres of land in 
Calhoun County; a lot in Maumee, Ohio; a city bond for $100.00; 
two pews in the Presbyterian church ; several shares of Lake Superior 
mining stock ; a forty-dollar scale, etc., etc. 

Among the men active as leaders in this early movement may be 
mentioned Chas. G. Hammond, Samuel Coit, Israel Coe, S. S. Barnard, 
Francis Raymond, Lyman Baldwin, Chas. Howard, E. K. Gilbert and 
Philetus Church. Outside of Detroit there was no one more inter- 
ested in the organization of the church than the Rev. O. C. Thompson, 
then a young minister at St. Clair. For many years since then his 
church home was with us, and it is not long since he was removed 
from us by death at a ripe old age. 

While all these and others were efficient in the planting of this 
church, the man who, by character, standing and influence, was 
perhaps foremost in the movement was Chas. G. Hammond. Though 
up to that time most of his years had been spent in the Presbyterian 
church, he was strongly attached to the principles and the polity of the 
Congregational order and labored faithfully for their establishment in 
Detroit. He was a man of great force of character and individuality; 
possessed of sterling integrity, sound judgment and resolute purpose. 
He was active in the church in all its work, notably so in the prayer 
meeting and Sabbath school. He was fitted for almost any service 
and position, and in later years he came to hold high places in com- 
mercial circles and in the councils of the churches of the land. He 
would have honored a chair in the United States Senate or a position 
in the cabinet as counselor of the President of the United States. 
He was a born leader, not only of men, but of corporate interests, 
with a marvelous capacity for execution. 

It was through Mr. Hammond's influence that Mr. David Hale, 
then of the New York Journal of Commerce, an earnest, Christian man, 
became interested in this church. Relying wholly upon the judgment 
of Mr. Hammond, Mr. Hale pledged $600.00 annually for the susten- 
tation of the enterprise until it should become well established; and 
for two years he paid that sum each year towards the maintenance of 
the church. That was material aid, much needed and very valuable ; 
without it, success may have been doubtful; with it, it soon became 
assured. 



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It is not necessary to dwell further upon the initial steps which 
resulted in the organization of this church. The first informal confer- 
ence, of which record is made, was held November 25, 1844. The first 
meeting which resulted in any formal action was held December 8 in 
the city hall. At that time a committee consisting of Messrs. S. S. 
Barnard, Israel Coe, C. G. Hammond, James G. Crane and Wm. Cook 
was appointed " to formulate a Confession of Faith, a Covenant and 
Rules of Practice" for such an organization. At a subsequent 
meeting the same committee was instructed " to convene an Ecclesias- 
tical Council upon December 25, 1844, to consider the propriety of 
forming a Congregational church, and, if deemed wise, to perfect such 
an organization." The First Congregational Society, after one or two 
preliminary meetings, was organized December 23, 1844. The first 
trustees of that corporation were C. G. Hammond, Francis Raymond, 
Israel Coe, Elisha Tyler and Lyman Baldwin. 

Upon Christmas day, 1844, the Ecclesiastical Council met in the 
city hall, approved of the organization of this church, and upon that 
day and in that place The First Congregational Church of Detroit 

commenced its existence. Only 

three Congregational churches were 

; ■" . represented in that council, viz.: 

those at Rochester, St. Clair and 
Armada. The thirteen charter mem- 
bers were : S. S. Barnard, Lyman 
Baldwin, Mrs. Mancy Baldwin, Jas, 
G. Crane, Mrs. Mary A. Crane, 
Francis Raymond, Mrs. Ruth Ray- 
mond, Robert W. Warner, Mrs. C. 
A. Warner, Wm. Cook, Mrs. Mari- 
etta P. Cook, Mrs. Mary J. Ham- 
mond, and Miss Rhoda Cowles.. 
Nine more joined the following 
Sunday, viz.: December 29th, and 
four upon the succeeding Sabbath, 
giving a total membership of 26 
at the beginning of the new year. 
The first church officer elected was Mr. Francis Raymond as clerk 
upon February 2nd, 1845. He had already served the society in that 
capacity. No deacons were elected until August, 1845, eight months 




Deacon Charles E. Silsbee. 
1866-1866. 



HISTORICAL ADDRESS. 



25 






after the organization of the church, when Messrs. S. S. Barnard and 
Chas. Howard were elected to fill that orifice for two years. At the 
close of the first quarter-century, Deacon S. S. Barnard, Deacon and 
Mrs. Raymond, Deacon and 
Mrs. Baldwin, Mrs. Cook and 
Miss Cowles were the only \ 
remaining charter members. At 
the close of the half century 

Deacon and Mrs. Raymond and , 

Mrs. Cook are alone spared. 
God hath dealt kindly and gra- 
ciously with them and us in 
continuing their lives during all 
these years. The hour brings 
to them and to us rare emo- 
tions, in that for fifty years 
they have been permitted to 
share so efficiently in the work 
they helped to plant, and to 
behold so great a fruitage. 
Surely the sincere prayer of each 
one of us arises at this hour 
that many blessed years yet to 
come, and the comforts of a 
happy home and of a church life 
in our midst, or wherever their 

lot may be cast, may yet be granted unto all of them. As is known to 
all of us, Deacon Raymond has served this church as clerk since his 
first election. All the records of church meetings and of important 
action have been made by his hand alone, and very few assemblies of 
this people have been held when he in person was not present to 
perform his official duties. Probably no other church in the land has 
been so long and faithfully served by one officer. 

Relative to the other eleven charter members, our church records 
furnish the following information : Mrs. Mary J. Hammond, dismissed 
by letter June 10, 1848; Robert W. Warner, died January 25, 1849; 
Jas. G. Crane, dismissed by letter June 5, 1857; Mrs. Mary A. Crane, 
dismissed by letter June 5, 1857; Mrs. C. A. Warner, dismissed by 
letter August 21, 1863; Wm. Cook, died in 1874; Deacon Lyman 




Deacon Francis Raymond — 1856- 

Also Clerk of the Church — 1845 — 



26 THROUGH FIP^TY YEARS. 

Baldwin, died October 18, 1875; Mrs. Mancy Baldwin, died January 
23, 1880; Deacon S. S. Barnard, died August 7, 1881; Mrs. Marietta 
P. Cook, dismissed by letter September 21, 1883 5 Miss Rhoda Cowles, 
died February 8, 1891. 

Pastorate of Rev. Henry L. Hammond. 

Rev. Henry L. Hammond, brother of Chas. G. Hammond, was the 
first pastor of this church. At that time he was a young man of nearly 
thirty years of age. He was a native of New York ; a graduate of Ober- 
lin College and of Andover Theological Seminary, and was ordained in 
1 841. He served short pastorates over churches at Kingston, Mass., 
and Homer, Mich., leaving the latter to take up his work in Detroit. 
He continued with this church until June, 1847, when, at his request, 
he was released from further service with this people, though urged by 
them to remain for another year. The other churches which came 
under his care during later years were those at Morrisville, N. Y., 
Grand Rapids, Mich., and Princeton, 111. Subsequently, for many 
years he was general agent and treasurer of Chicago Theological 
Seminary ; still later he became a writer of considerable note. 

Many of you will remember him as being with us at the dedica- 
tion of our church three years since, at which time he spoke to us of 
many personal recollections connected with the early history of the 
church. In March, 1893, he died suddenly of heart failure at his 
home in Evanston, 111., aged 78 years. 

Mr. Hammond's work in this church was faithful and earnest ; he 
was a good preacher, but was more successful in pastoral work. He 
was here at the beginning, when special and miscellaneous services 
were required. It was the formative and the critical period of our 
church life; members were few in number; the church was weak, and 
some opposition now and then became apparent. Patience, earnest- 
ness and faithfulness were virtues which marked his character and 
labors and gave the latter the measure of success attained. He was 
thoroughly evangelical in his beliefs, and was zealous in promulgating 
them. Mankind needed to be saved; souls must be sought and won 
by the methods offered in the gospel. He searched for them one by 
one and led them to the Saviour. During the winter of 1846-7 
Rev. Chas. G. Finney labored in this church with Mr. Hammond for 
about six weeks. As the result of such work a goodly number were 
added to the fellowship, and the membership was greatly strengthened 



HISTORICAL ADDRESS. 2J 

and encouraged. During Mr. Hammond's two and one-half years' 
pastorate the increase in members had been from the original 13 to 
115, of whom no remained when he left. 

The First Church Building. 

Immediately after the organization of the church, a movement 
was commenced looking to the erection of a suitable building, and in 
the spring of 1845 a lot, upon the corner of Jefferson avenue and 
Beaubien street, was purchased for $2,000. In June plans for the 
building were adopted, and it was voted by the society that work 
should be immediately prosecuted to the extent of constructing the 
walls, the roof, the steeple and the completion of the basement rooms 
ready for occupation. The cost of all this was not to exceed $4,000. 
Such rapid progress was made that the first annual meeting of the 
society was held in the basement of the church in December, 1845, ^ ess 
than six months after the plans had been adopted. With the incom- 
ing of the new year the new church home was occupied with great 
rejoicing by the congregation. Upon the first Sabbath, it is said, 
Mr. Hammond appropriately preached from the text, " I was glad 
when they said unto me, Let us go into the house of the Lord." 
Perhaps there was not greater joy in the heart of David when he 
uttered those words, than was in the heart of each one who joined in 
that service upon that Sabbath morning. I do not believe we entered 
this beautiful temple, three years since, with more happiness and satis- 
faction than did that little band 49 years ago assemble for the first 
time in that dark, low basement. It was their church home, the first 
they could call their own. From wandering for a place of meeting, 
first at the city hall, then in the State capitol, afterwards in the 
circuit court room, and possibly in other places, they had come at 
last to a veritable temple where they could meet the Lord and wor- 
ship Him in His own house. 

During the spring and summer of 1846, work upon the building- 
was continued, and upon Aug. 30th of that year, when the church 
was less than twenty months old, the building completed was dedicated 
to the service of God. The total cost of the house and lot was about 
$7,700. Pledges amounting to about $4,200 had been secured, includ- 
ing help from Eastern friends of nearly $1,000. This left a debt upon 
the society of $3,500 or more, the last of which was not paid until 



28 



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& *< 



185 1, five years afterwards. The building is still standing upon the 
corner of Jefferson avenue and Beaubien street, and is now used for 

business purposes. The property 
was sold eventually for $9,150, and 
the proceeds applied towards the 
building of the Fort street church. 
For a year after Mr. Hammond's 
resignation had been accepted the 
church was without a pastor, Revs. 
O. C. Thompson, R. R. Kellogg 
and W. W. Atterbury occupying the 
pulpit. The Rev. Mr. Atterbury, 
then a young man recently from the 
seminary, served the church most 
of the time. During the winter of 
1 847-1 848, Rev. J. T. Avery, an 
evangelist, labored in the church 
with Mr. Atterbury for several 
weeks. The record of 1848 shows 
that sixty-one were added to the 
church that year, the result in part 
doubtless of that work. 




Deacon Henry E. Bostwick— -1868-1878. 

Also Sunday School Superintendent — 1868-1878. 



Pastorate of Rev. H. D. Kitchel, D. D. 

Rev. Harvey D. Kitchel, of Thomaston, Conn., was called to the 
pastorate of the church in July, 1848. He preached his first sermon 
upon the first Sabbath in October, and was installed pastor in the 
following December. 

At that time Dr. Kitchel was a young man and had held only 
one pastorate. Already, however, he gave promise of a mature 
manhood of more than ordinary attainments and usefulness. In this 
his second pastorate, the man and the church were fitted each for the 
other. In other words, it was evidently a call and a ministry inspired 
by the Master, and it was here, perhaps, that his greatest and best 
life's work was done. Dr. Kitchel soon came to occupy a foremost 
place in the city and the State as a preacher of rare attainments and 
excellence. His individuality was marked and unique. He was dignified 
in bearing, courteous in manner, with a heart as tender and affectionate 



HISTORICAL ADDRESS. 



2 9 



as a child's. His sermons were prepared with great care and study, and 
they possessed excellencies peculiar to Dr. Kitchel. His pulpit 
ministrations were forcible and impressive. Perspicuity, precision and 
terseness were marked characteristics of his style. He was a student 
of words, their meaning, force and proper use, and each word in his 
sermons seemed fitted to its place as evidently as the keystone in the 
arch. Great thoughts were stated with remarkable conciseness yet 
clearness, and sentences almost contained whole sermons. The latter 
have been well characterized for " soundness of doctrine, fullness and 
ripeness of thought, with a purity of style and chasteness of diction 
that gave them great charm and made them a power for good." His 
illustrations were singularly appropriate and expressive. One occurs 
to me now. Speaking once of the apparent length of our years in 
childhood, and the increasing rapidity with which they pass as we 
grow older, he said : " In youth our years are each three hundred and 
sixty-five days, in manhood they are shortened to fifty-two days, and 
in old asre to twelve." The fit- 



ness and expressiveness of that 
figure you will all readily under- 
stand. His texts were suggest- 
ive and appropriate, and his 
sermons fitted them. There 
was no forced connection be- 
tween them; the texts were 
never used for a purpose or a 
thought which was not in the 
heart of the inspired writer or 
speaker when they were uttered 
or recorded. Some of you may 
remember, for instance, that 
remarkable sermon upon the 
importance and value God 
placed upon the family and the 
home, from the text : "A month 
at Lebanon and two months 
at home;" the contexts being: 
when God called for a levy of 
thirty thousand men of Israel to go to Lebanon and prepare timber 
for His temple they should work in detachments, each of ten thousand 




Deacon Allan Bourn — 1890-1892. 

Also Sunday School Superintendent — 1880-1887. 



30 



THROUGH FIFTY YEARS. 



men, for one month only; two months, by His command, were to be 

spent at home. A most happy text for the thought of the sermon. 

Great force was not characteristic of Dr. Kitchel's manner; yet 

he possessed possibly that greater source of power and influence 

which springs from deliberation, 
method and thoughtfulness, united 
with great tenderness and kind- 
ness of heart. These were very 
marked, and gave great effect when 
aided by the strong intellectual 
faculties he possessed. He loved 
his church and his people. Al- 
though a generation has passed 
since he lived among us, he still 
fills a large place in the hearts of 
his living parishioners, and not 
a few throughout the State, who 
still remain, remember him and 
his work in Detroit with great 
satisfaction. 




Deacon Silas M. Holmes. 



The Second Church 
Building. 



As might well be expected, 
the church and the congregation 
grew rapidly under Dr. Kitchel's ministry. The building occupied 
was almost new, but it soon began to be too strait ; and it was 
apparent that in the near future new and enlarged quarters would be 
a necessity. In little more than six years after the dedication of the 
first church building, viz.: in December, 1852, formal action was taken 
by the society looking to the erection of another edifice. At a second 
meeting, held the same month, the special committee having the 
matter in hand reported in favor of an early building of a new and 
larger church in a more central and desirable locality, and in January, 
1853, the society decided to proceed at once with the work. Several 
sites were considered, but finally the property upon Fort street, corner 
of Wayne street, was selected, and it was purchased for $10,000. The 
committee on plans for the new building were Messrs. H. D. A. Ward, 
Israel Coe, S. M. Holmes and Chas. I. Walker. The committee on 



HISTORICAL ADDRESS. 



31 



ways and means consisted of Messrs. Wm. A. Butler, S. S. Barnard, 
Philo Parsons and N. D. Stebbins. It was first proposed to limit the 
cost of the building to $20,000, but it was soon decided that an edifice 
which would meet the requirements of the congregation could not be 
constructed for that sum, and the committee on plans were authorized 
to extend that limit, but, if possible, were not to exceed $30,000. 
Subscriptions amounting to nearly $12,000 were secured, and it was 
estimated that the property on Jefferson avenue could be sold for 
$10,000. With $22,000 in sight, as it was thought, it was decided to 
proceed with the work of building a $30,000 church upon a lot costing 
$10,000, for which payment had not been made. The building 
committee consisted of Messrs. S. M. Holmes, S. S. Barnard, George 
Gilbert, Philo Parsons, Wm. A. Butler and R. W. King. Their experi- 
ence in church building has often been repeated, and probably will 
never end. Suffice it to say, the house was completed in little more 
than one year's time, at an expense of $46,000, exceeding the sum 
named for a limit by fifty per cent., with estimated available resources 
then amounting to $28,400. The 
latter was made up chiefly of about 
$1,000 raised by the ladies for the 
bell; $9,150 from the sale of the old 
church property; $11,206 in sub- 
scriptions, and $6,629 realized by 
sale of pews in the new church ; 
leaving an indebtedness of about 
$17,500 for the building, and $10,000 
for the lot, with accrued interest ; 
the total amounting nearly or quite 
to $30,000. To meet or reduce this, 
no immediate provision was made. 
When the church was finished Dea- 
con Barnard had advanced $13,000 
and S. M. Holmes $8,400 towards 
its erection, in addition to what 
they had given for the work. 

The church was dedicated September 21, 1854. Dr. Leonard 
Bacon, of New Haven, Conn., preached the dedicatory sermon, and 
Rev. H. L. Hammond, the first pastor, offered the dedicatory prayer. 
Up to that date the total enrolled membership of the church since 





Deacon Edward D. Jones. 



32 THROUGH FIFTY YEARS. 

its organization had reached 340. Of these about 100 had been 
removed by letter or by death, leaving an actual membership of 240. 
Of the latter, only 20 now remain with us, viz.: 

Rev. H. D. Kitchel, D. D., Francis Raymond, 

Philo Parsons, Mrs. Ruth Raymond, 

R. W. King, D. B. Woodbridge, 

Mrs. R. W. King, Mrs. Jane Smith, 

Mrs. Nancy Tuttle, John Blackader, 

Mrs. H. H. Bushnell, Mrs. Abby J. Hackett, 

James Nall, F. W. Swift, 

Mrs. Alida Carpenter, Miss Adelaide E. Coe, 

Mrs. E. M. Clark, Mrs. Eliza J. Roys. 

Mrs. S. M. Hibbard, Geo. M. Lane. 

Usually the removal of a church from the old house into the new 
is an occasion of great joy and gratitude. Hope brightens the future 
and imparts courage to hearts and hands. I do not say such was not 
the case at this time, for there was hope and courage, though fears 
and uncertainties did cloud the future. Succeeding years only made 
the outlook darker and brought the society to the verge of bank- 
ruptcy. Fortunately, the debt was held by those who were not 
disposed to force payment or make trouble, and arrangements were 
concluded by which the day of settlement was deferred. Then came 
the financial panic of 1857, which shattered the commercial interests of 
the whole land and from which they did not recover for several years. 
Rapidly the debt increased, and the burdens became greater year by 
year. At the close of 1856 the society owed $35,600; one year later 
the debt exceeded $37,000, and in December, 1858, it was about 
$39,000 with no cash resources. In addition to this, current receipts 
failed to meet ordinary expenses and the society was in debt to the 
pastor nearly $1,000. 

It was during these trying days that Deacon Barnard came to the 
rescue, and by taking a load which almost crushed him, he perhaps 
saved the church. Never had a church a better friend than had this 
one in Sherman S. Barnard; a friend not simply in name, but in very 
deed. For this church and the great work, present and future, it 
represented, he gave his name, his credit, and a goodly portion of his 
possessions. 

At last, in 1859, a united effort was made to pay the debt incurred 
for the building and accumulated interest. A large amount was 



HISTORICAL ADDRESS. 33 

pledged by members of the society, but the effort to meet the crisis 
would have failed, had it not been for Deacon Barnard, who was the 
principal creditor of the society. With resources secured through 
him and his generosity the debt for the building was paid, and there 
remained unpaid the $10,000 due for the lot with accrued interest, 
and several other obligations in the current expense account which 
had not been met. For these/immediate payment was not required. 
With the relief afforded in the removal of by far the greatest burden, 
it was felt that the remaining indebtedness could in time be removed. 
To insure the latter, and at the same time be providing means for pay- 
ment, Sabbath offerings were taken each Sabbath. These were 
continued for two years or more, when a fund of over $2,000 had been 
secured. In 1863, to meet all obligations then existing and to 
provide means for much needed repairs upon the building, about 
$16,000 was required. With a cheerful and united effort the amount 
named was obtained. The society was at last wholly relieved of its 
great incubus of debt, and for the first day in almost ten years the 
joy and comfort was realized by the members that they were once 
more free. Prosperity seemed assured and the future was bright with 
the promise of hope. 

Before leaving this part of our history, it is only just to add that 
while most, if not every one, gave freely during these years of struggle 
according to their ability, there were those who not only by their 
liberality and pledges of money, but also in the grant of much time 
and thought, which means added gifts, are perhaps entitled to special 
mention ; men who year after year carried the burdens of anxiety and 
care as church and society officers. Mr. Silas M. Holmes should be 
remembered for his services in the erection of the church building, 
giving time almost without measure, when time with him counted for 
much, and for financial aid provided. Later, generally for services 
rendered as trustees during these years of our history, we should name 
Wm. Warner, Newell Avery, Chas. I. Walker, R. J. Hackett, D. M. 
Richardson, Philo Parsons, Lyman Baldwin, Wm. A. Butler, R. W. 
King and T. K. Adams. 

Resignation of Dr. Kitchel. 

During these five or six years or more material growth in the church 
and congregation could hardly be expected; especially when we consider 
the great political excitements which all these years shook this whole 



34 



THROUGH FIFTY YEARS. 



land from ocean to ocean. The Nation was struggling like a giant for 
existence ; indeed, we were almost in the throes of death. The great 
interests of the day and of almost every home were centered in 
armies, battlefields, the loved ones at the front, the dying, the dead. 
Yet, amid all these distractions and barriers, our pastor worked on faith- 
fully as he could, a great grief and a crushing blow once, yes twice, 
meanwhile having fallen upon his own home and heart. This contin- 
ued until October, 1864, when he asked for a dissolution of his pastoral 
relations with this church, and in November a council duly called 
granted his request. Thus closed a pastorate of sixteen years, the 
blessed fruitage of which still abides and long will abide with this 
church. 

His membership still remains with us, as also that of Mrs. Kitchel, 
and will continue for both until they are removed to the church 

triumphant. Immediately fol- 
lowing the close of his pas- 
<•'■- torate, Dr. Kitchel accepted a 

call from the Plymouth Congre- 
gational Church at Chicago. 
This charge he resigned in 1866 
to accept the presidency of 
Middlebury College, his Alma 
Mater, in Vermont. In addi- 
tion to the duties attached to 
that position, he preached often 
among the Vermont churches, 
where his work, aid and encour- 
agement were always accept- 
able. After seven years of 
service in that field, increasing 
infirmity of voice required a 
relinquishment of active labors, 
though he continued to preach 
when able in answer to special 
calls, until added years com- 
1878-1881. pelled him to decline all public 

speaking at any great length. 

The Ministry of Rev. S. M. Freeland. 
In December following the removal of Dr. Kitchel, Rev. S. M. 
Freeland, of Watertown, Conn., was engaged for a three-months' 




Deacon Frank Milligan. 



HISTORICAL ADDRESS. 



35 



service, and at its conclusion the engagement was continued for one 
year longer. During his supply of the pulpit, the labors of Rev. E. P. 
Hammond, the evangelist, 
were secured, and a success- 
ful work was wrought within 
the parish. The fruitage was 
especially manifest among 
the young people of the con- 
gregation, from whom many 
additions were made to the 
church. During that year 
fifty-five united upon confes- 
sion of faith, and thirty-two 
by letter. Mr. Freeland's 
ministry with this church, 
though short, was character- 
ized by great earnestness 
and success. 

It was at this time, near 
the close of the engagement 
of Rev. S. M. Freeland, 
that the movement had its 
beginning looking to the 
organization of another Con- 
gregational church. Among 
a goodly number, especially 

of the younger people, the suggestion met with hearty support, 
and it was energetically pushed to a successful conclusion. By 
many of the older members of the church and society the proposal 
was not received with favor, as the memory of the struggle of 
the years just closed was too vivid for any encouragement on 
their part of such an enterprise, while the conviction seemed clear 
that one strong church would accomplish a more successful work than 
would two churches more or less weakened by a division. The 
council, however, which was called favored the movement, and in 
March, 1866, the Second, now the Woodward Avenue, Congregational 
Church was formed, with Mr. Freeland as pastor, 1 10 members with- 
drawing from this church to unite with the new organization. The 




Rev. Samuel M. Freeland. 

1864-1866. 



36 THROUGH FIFTY YEARS. 

vigorous life soon attained by the latter, and the position and 
influence it has since commanded, show that it was a vine planted by 
the Lord of the vineyard. 

The Pastorate of Rev. A. Ballard, D. D. 

The Head of the church soon sent us a pastor in the person of the 
Rev. Addison Ballard, D. D., of Williamstown, Mass. In June he 
commenced his labors among us, and was installed in October, the 
installation sermon being preached by Rev. John Todd, D. D., of 
Pittsfield, Mass. 

Dr. Ballard came of good New England stock. He was born in 
Framingham, Mass., in 1822, was educated at Williams college, 
graduating with high honors in the class of 1842. During the years 
following graduation he was successively Principal of Hopkins 
Academy, tutor in Williams College, principal of an academy in Grand 
Rapids, Mich., professor in the Ohio University at Athens, and 
professor of rhetoric in Williams College. Against the wish of Dr. 
Hopkins and the protest of every student who had been under his 
instruction, he subsequently accepted the professorship of mathematics 
and natural philosophy in Marietta College, Ohio ; but later Williams- 
town the third time secured him as the pastor of the First Congrega- 
tional Church. Here he labored six years, until 1866, when he 
accepted a call from this church. While in Detroit he again received 
the offer of the professorship of moral philosophy in Marietta College, 
where he had once labored, but the appointment was declined, his 
work with this church offering greater attractions to him. 

Dr. Ballard possessed rare and admirable qualities which fitted 
him for his work. He was a lover of books and was scholarly in his 
thoughts and tastes. His sermons partook of the same characteristics; 
they were thoughtful and prepared with care. He was also a lover of 
nature ; her beauties in structure and to the eye gave great delight to 
him, and frequently supplied sources for illustration and thought. In 
his social relations he was especially pleasing, cordial in greetings, easy 
in manner, kindly and affectionate in heart and disposition. While all 
of these were effective in fitting him for the pastoral office, they 
especially prepared him for a professor's chair. In the latter his life 
has been chiefly spent, and his work there has been of marked ability 
and success. 



HISTORICAL ADDRESS. 37 

Dr. Ballard began his ministry with this church at a somewhat 
difficult period in its history. One hundred and ten members had 
just left us to commence a new work in another field. Young and 
vigorous blood had gone out of us, and we were left reduced in 
numbers and weakened in strength. But there was much to 
encourage and give hope. We were about 260 strong, had a com- 
fortable church home for those days, were out of debt, were possessed 
of considerable financial ability, perfectly united in our new pastor, 
with a purpose to join hands, close up the ranks, look forward and 
not backward. 

For nearly six years Dr. Ballard led us in our church work. 
During those years we were materially strengthened and enlarged by 
his faithful ministrations. His resignation was tendered in February, 
1872, and in March it was reluctantly accepted. The church unani- 
mously united in an expression of their esteem for him and of 
assurance of "undiminished confidence in his earnest piety, in his 
fitness for his chosen work in the ministry, in their regard for him as a 
gentleman of fine education and ripe culture, an excellent preacher, 
and a pastor able to sympathize in the joys and sorrows of his people." 

Since leaving Detroit Dr. Ballard has occupied important and 
useful positions in educational fields. He was soon invited to the 
Douglas Professorship of Christian Greek and of Latin in Lafayette 
College, Pennsylvania, and afterwards was transferred to the Chair of 
Moral Philosophy in the same institution. For nineteen years his 
work there was one of marked success. In addition to his regular 
duties as professor, he was instrumental in securing an increase of 
$60,000 in the endowment fund of the college. About one year 
since Dr. Ballard accepted the Professorship of Logic in the University 
of the city of New York, in addition to which duties he gives instruc- 
tion in Ethics and Christian Evidences. 

The Pastorate of Rev. Zachary Eddy, D. D. 

The time between the close of Dr. Ballard's pastorate and the 
coming of Dr. Eddy was protracted and unexpected. We experienced 
disappointments which were trying, and many were the prayers offered 
that in His own good time the Master would send us the under- 
shepherd of His choice. During eighteen months of interregnum the 
church waited patiently, with much to encourage. No membership 
could have been more united and more loyal to their church home 



38 THROUGH FIFTY YEARS. 

and duties than was that of this church during those months when 
they waited. The Sabbath and week-day services were well sustained 
in interest and numbers attending, and the society revenues and the 
aggregate benevolences of the church showed no diminution. 

In July, 1873, a formal call was extended to Rev. Z. Eddy, D. D., 
of Chelsea, Mass. It was immediately accepted, and upon October 10 
he was installed pastor of this church. The installation sermon was 
preached by Dr. Kitchel. Dr. Eddy was a true Puritan by birth and 
sympathies. He was born at Stockbridge, Vermont, in 181 5, but his 
boyhood was spent in Western New York. His opportunities for 
attending school were limited, but he became an educated man in the 
best sense of the word. At the age of eighteen he was licensed to 
preach; at twenty he was ordained, and his first charge was at 
Sheridan, N. Y. Following this, he served short pastorates at 
Rutledge and Springville in the same State. In 1845 ne was in tne 
Home Missionary service at Mineral Point, Wisconsin, and afterwards 
he supplied the churches at Warsaw, N. Y., and at Birmingham, Conn. 
In 1857 ne accepted a call from the First Congregational Church at 
Northampton, Mass., and after ten years of service in that important 
field, he removed to Brooklyn, N. Y., succeeding the venerable 
Dr. Geo. W. Bethune in the Dutch Reformed Church upon the 
Heights. After a pastorate of four years in that pulpit he spent two 
years at Chelsea, Mass., and from thence he removed to Detroit in 
1873 to enter upon his work with this church. He remained here 
eleven years, the longest and probably the most successful and satis- 
factory service of his life. During his residence with us he more than 
once remarked that this would probably be his last settled pastorate ; 
and it was. He was acting pastor for about three years over the 
Church of the Redeemer at Atlanta, Ga., and for two or three winters 
he preached at Lake Helen, Fla. His closing days were spent at 
Detroit without charge. His death occurred in this city at the noon 
hour of Sunday, November 15, 1891, at the age of 76 years. His 
illness was brief, and his death was a surprise to many. 

Dr. Eddy all his life was a busy and notable man. His strong 
personality and commanding presence made him a marked figure; in 
almost any audience he would be among the first to be noticed and to 
attract the attention of a stranger. He had not the advantage of a 
college and seminary training, yet he became one of the foremost 
preachers of the land, and was often called to the front upon 



HISTORICAL ADDRESS. 39 

important occasions. In character he presented marked contrasts ; he 
had infirmities, but far greater virtues. He united great intellectual 
strength with tenderness of heart, and, though impulsive, he harbored 
ill against no man. I believe he loved men for the immortality with 
which they were created, and he sincerely desired to serve them by 
bringing them to the salvation offered through the Redeemer. He 
loved his work for the good he could do, and his life was consecrated 
to the service of his Master. His excellent voice, fine personal 
presence, ease of bearing upon the platform, ready command of great 
thoughts and good language, and the logical construction of his 
sentences, made him an effective speaker, perhaps an orator, without 
mannerism or any tinge of sensationalism. He possessed a poetic 
mind, was an excellent judge of music, and especially enjoyed the 
productions of great composers. For the latter he had special admir- 
ation. Though his pastorates were often short, they were marked by 
frequent revivals, wherein good work was wrought. In doctrine, he 
was of the most pronounced evangelical type, and though firm and 
clear in his personal convictions and beliefs, he was charitable in his 
sympathies, and was intolerant of dogmatism. 

Dr. Eddy was an author of marked abilities. His principal work, 
Immanuel, or the Life of Christ, is pronounced by excellent critics 
and biblical scholars to be one of the best of many works upon that 
subject. With Drs. R. D. Hitchcock and Philip Schaff he compiled, 
in 1869, Hymns of Song and Praise, which at that time had not 
been excelled, if equalled, by any hymnal published. Later the 
Carmina Sanctorum, by the same authors, has received a flattering 
recognition among reviewers and the churches. Dr. Eddy always 
came to his pulpit well prepared. His study was literally his work- 
shop, and he offered to his people the best he could bring. With 
rare exceptions his sermons were written in full, but upon occasions, 
when warmed by the subject, his manuscript was laid aside for a time, 
and then it was he excelled. If Dr. Eddy, early in his ministry, could 
have habitually prepared himself for his pulpit without manuscript* 
and have accustomed himself to speaking free and unconstrained, he 
would have stood in the very front rank as an effective pulpit orator. 
His pastorate here was marked by much zeal, earnestness and success. 
Immediately upon his coming among us, many were drawn into the 
congregation by his magnetism as a preacher; the work in the church 
was greatly quickened ; conversions were frequent and numerous ; two 



40 THROUGH FIFTY YEARS. 

or three special works of the spirit were realized ; the benevolences of 
the church were increased, and new and successful methods were 
introduced into church work. By this people the ministry and 
memory of Dr. Eddy will long be cherished for the record of his 
service among us. He wrought zealously and well, and his work will 
long be visible upon the walls of our Zion and within this sanctuary. 

For many years Dr. Eddy purposed to retire at the close of his fifty 
years of service in the pulpit from the more active work of the ministry. 
Accordingly, in March, 1883, he gave notice that, at the close of that 
year of service, he should resign his pastorate with us, giving timely 
notice, that his successor might be secured, to continue the work 
without interruption. In fulfillment of such notice, in October 
following, his resignation was tendered, but he kindly offered to 
continue his labors with us until his successor should be called and be 
present for duty ; the same council to release him and install whoever 
should follow. 

In accepting his resignation the church gave an expression of the 
"confidence, respect and affection" entertained for him by his people ; 
its appreciation " of the ability and Christian zeal" he had exhibited 
in his work; of his " great earnestness, eloquence and power" as a 
preacher; of his " great intellectual and spiritual gifts"; of his " pure 
and noble Christian character, his tenderness and faithfulness as a 
pastor and guide, and his remarkable power as a preacher of the 
gospel." An effort was made by the church to induce Dr. Eddy to 
withdraw his resignation, but without avail. It was therefore accepted 
in December, 1883, to take effect as he had suggested. 

The Pastorate of Rev. Wm. H. Davis, D. D. 

The committee appointed to seek a successor to Dr. Eddy, 
recommended the calling of Rev. Wm. H. Davis, of Beverly, Mass., 
to the pastorate of this church. The report was unanimously adopted 
and in a letter dated April 2nd, 1884, Dr. Davis accepted the call. 
The installing council convened May 20th, the dissolution of the 
relation of pastor and people between Dr. Eddy and the church was 
approved and our present pastor became his successor. 

Dr. Davis is a native of Chelsea of the Green Mountain State; 
he was born in April, 1851, graduated at Dartmouth college, studied 
theology in Union seminary and immediately commenced his ministry 
at Beverly, Mass. He had a successful pastorate of seven years over 



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41 



the Washington Street Congregational church and resigned that 
charge in May, 1884, to become our under-shepherd. Of Dr. Davis 
and his work in Detroit, this perhaps is not the occasion for me to 
speak at length. He and his services among us, and the position he 
has come to hold in this city and State, are well known to you all. 
His life and record here speak with greater emphasis than any words 
which could be uttered to-day upon this platform. He is yet in the 
midst of his service among this people, in this city and State, and no 
man's work can be measured until it is completed. Greater wisdom, 
faithfulness and zeal could not have characterized the ministry of any 
man ; more love of people for pastor I believe could not be cherished, 
than abides in the hearts of all who worship within these walls. That 
wisdom and those resources which spring not wholly from experience 
or the lesson of years, but also from intuition, have from the first 
characterized our pastor's work among us. The church has been 
greatly blessed and its member- 
ship and influence materially 
increased under his ministry. 
Dr. Davis has recently closed his 
first decade of service among us 
with great satisfaction to his 
people, and we all truts that the 
close of the second decade will 
find him and all that belong to 
him still with this people. 

The Building of the 
Third Church. 

The time had now arrived in 
the life of this church when two 
important conditions, essential 
for its future prosperity, de- 
manded a solution, viz.: the 
erection of a new building bet- 
ter adapted for the work of 
the church, and the removal of 
its location to one nearer the 

districts where its membership resided, and where in the years to 
come it could expect a greater fruitage for its labors. With existing 




Deacon Arthur H. Bigg, M. D. 

1891-1895. 




42 THROUGH FIFTY YEARS. 

conditions growth could not be expected, and even present strength 
and influence could not much longer be maintained. The enthusiasm 
and zeal which so characterized the labors of our young pastor and 

his wife could not avert the 
inevitable. Love and loy- 
alty to the old church on 
the part of her children 
were influential factors 
which kept the membership 
as large and the service as 
efficient as it was. While 
those who were with us and 
belonged to us could be 
held for a time, because of 
such affection, strangers 
could not be drawn by like 
influences, for they did not 
exist in their hearts, and 

removals and deaths made 
Deacon Thomas Donnelly. heayy requisitions upon 

membership and strength. 
While to all must be accorded sincerity in views and opinions, as to 
the wise course to be adopted, differences in these were to be 
expected, and they existed. To overcome these barriers and unify 
views, three or four fortunate factors became effective, and were 
eventually decisive, viz.: time, wise leadership, church loyalty, and a 
general disposition to abide by the will of the majority when 
expressed, as it was, without bitterness, but with kindness and 
sincerity. Such conditions, if permitted to prevail generally at such 
times, would save many churches from quarrels, heartburnings and 
disruptions. 

Within less than two years after the coming of Dr. Davis the 
necessity for this step became so pressing that initial steps were taken, 
first outside the society and church official action. In order to secure 
a desirable location before values of property should be greatly 
increased or desirable sites occupied, a few of our interested members 
obtained a contract for the corner lot at present occupied by this 
church for $13,300. The parties securing the contract v/ere : Geo. R. 
Angell, J. K. Burnham, F. C. Stoepel, W. H. Strong, Allan Bourn, 



HISTORICAL ADDRESS. 43 

F. C. Pingree, J. H. Avery, C. A. Warren, E. D. Jones and M. L. 
Williams. This action was taken chiefly for the advantage of this 
church, should the society in the near future be inclined to purchase 
the property for its use ; otherwise, possibly, for another Congregational 
church — to be organized. This was in February, 1886. For more 
than a year some action by the church was awaited. None being 
taken, meetings were held in the spring of 1887 of those favoring the 
formation of a Congregational church for the more northern portions 
of the city. In April, 1887, articles of incorporation of the Plymouth 
Congregational Society were executed by thirty subscribers, all, with a 
single exception, belonging to the First Congregational Society, and 
in May following this new organization assumed the contract for the 
lot already described. During the following months plans were drawn 
for church and chapel, and pledges were secured amounting nearly to 
$10,000. 

Such action, as might be expected, created uneasiness on the part 
of a majority of the members of this society, who felt that a division 
would be unwise and disastrous for both organizations, and that some 
solution must be reached whereby the First Church could retain 
substantially its existing membership and strength. This feeling soon 
crystalized in the following petition to the trustees of the First 
Society, in May, 1888: 

The members of the First Congregational Church and Society of Detroit, thinking 
it unwise to expend more money for repairs upon our church building, and considering 
its dilapidated condition, and the fact that personal contributions have become neces- 
sary to make up annual deficits to pay expenses and pastor's salary, believe a sale of 
the church property on the southeast corner of Fort and Wayne streets advisable, 
provided $1,000 or more per foot front can be obtained therefor. We therefore ask 
the trustees of the society to call a meeting of the society to consider the matter of 
authorizing said trustees to make such sale whenever they can obtain said price. 
Signed: 

H. E. Baker, Mrs. N. C. Avery, 

A. L. Stebbins, Geo. M. Lane, 

D. R. Shaw, F. Raymond, 

L. Connor, Chas. E. Fox, 

Hugh E. Kinney, F. W. Swift, 

Wm. A. Butler, W. C. Stoepel. 

Complying with this request, a large meeting of the society was 
held June 14th, 1888, at which time the trustees were authorized to 
sell the church property upon the terms named, provided that a site 
for a new building shall have first been selected by a special committee 



44 



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and approved by the society. The committee upon new site were : 
Messrs. E. D. Jones, J. L. Batchelder, E. C. Hinsdale, C. I. Walker, 
Allan Bourn, H. E. Baker, Geo. M. Lane, A. L. Stebbins, F. C. 
Pingree and C. H. Smith. 

At a meeting of the society held October 8, 1888, the committee 
reported at length as to their action, and in conclusion recommended 
the acceptance of the following proposition from the trustees of the 
Plymouth Congregational Society, two members of the committee 
not concurring : 

The trustees of the Plymouth Society, being duly authorized by their society, 
offer their property on the northeast corner of Woodward and Forest avenues, 88.5 
feet front and 216 feet deep; also a subscription list for a new house of worship 
amounting to about $10,000, and a bank account of $300, all subject to a mortgage upon 
the property amounting to $13,000, and interest and taxes amounting to about $565, with 
a few unpaid bills against the society, provided the First Congregational Society, 
within two years from January 1, 1889, begin the erection of a new church and chapel 
upon said lot, to cost when completed not less than $75,000. 

The report recommended that the trustees be instructed to 
purchase the property described upon the terms named. After an 
extended and kindly discussion the report was adopted with only ten 

negative votes, and the following 
committee on plans for the new 
building was selected: Messrs. 
Geo. R. Angell, Geo. P. Andrews, 
W. H. Strong, E. D. Jones, F. C. 
Pingree, F. H. Rogers,Allan Bourn, 
J. L. Batchelder, F. C. Stoepel, 
Geo. M. Lane, H. E. Baker, C. 
K. Latham and Miss Clara Avery. 
The pastor, Dr. Davis, was also 
made a member of the committee 
by a vote of the society. The 
property upon the corner of Fort 
and Wayne streets was sold for 
$78,000, and by agreement the 
church was permitted to occupy 
the same until the completion of 
the new chapel. 
The committee on plans soon found that the lot purchased had 
not sufficient width on Woodward Avenue for the erection of such a 




Deacon David Ogilvie. 

1894— 



HISTORICAL ADDRESS. 



45 



building as was desirable, and the society therefore purchased an 
adjoining piece of land 40 feet in width and extending the whole 
length of the lot already secured. This provided a total frontage 
upon Woodward Avenue of 
128.5 by 216 feet on Forest 
Avenue. The purchase price 
of this addition was at the rate 
of $185 per foot front. 

In April, 1889, pl ans were 
submitted to the society for 
the new church and chapel, pre- 
pared by Mr. John L. Faxon, 
of Boston, Mass. Their adop- 
tion was recommended, subject 
to such minor changes as might 
seem best as the work pro- 
gressed ; the cost of the church 
and chapel not to exceed 
$90,000, exclusive of architect's 
fees and the organ. The report 
of the committee was adopted 
without a dissenting vote. At 
this same meeting the follow- 
ing building committee was 
appointed: Messrs. Geo. R. An- 1868— 

gell, John L. Batchelder, Allan 

Bourn, A. L. Stebbins and John Belknap. Mr. Chas. K. Latham was 
subsequently made a member of the committee, vice Allan Bourn, who 
declined the appointment because of ill-health. To the members of 
this committee and to the architect we owe a great debt of gratitude 
for the valuable services they rendered. How faithfully and well 
they wrought is best voiced by this beautiful structure they have 
provided, so perfectly adapted for the use and purposes for which it 
was erected. 

When bids for the construction of the church, according to the 
plans adopted, were received, it was found they could not be brought 
within the limit of $90,000 named by the society at its April meeting. 
It was therefore voted by the society to increase the amount to 
$110,000, providing that $20,000 be pledged within 60 days and before 




Deacon Henry E. Baker. 



46 THROUGH FIFTY YEARS. 

the work of construction should be commenced. This larger sum, 
however, did not cover the cost of architect's fees, organ, gas fixtures, 
carpets, furniture, grading, walks and several minor expenses. Upon 
November 23, 1889, contracts for building the auditorium and chapel 
were executed by Messrs. Vinton & Co. and Alexander Chapoton, Jr., 
exclusive of marble work, the heating fixtures and the exceptions 
already mentioned ; and before the close of the month work upon the 
construction was commenced. During 1890 the latter was pushed 
with as much energy as possible. Upon June 3d the corner-stone 
was laid with appropriate services, including those of prayer and song, 
with brief addresses by Rev. W. W. Ramsay, D. D., of the Central 
Methodist Episcopal Church ; Rev. R. W. Clark, D. D., of St. Paul's 
Protestant Episcopal Church ; Rev. C. R. Henderson, D. D., of the 
Woodward Avenue Baptist Church ; Rev. M. A. Brownson, D. D., 
of the First Presbyterian Church and Rev. H. P. DeForest, D. D., 
of the Woodward Avenue Congregational Church. Rev. Drs. Z. Eddy 
and P. R. Hurd also took part in the services. 

Final Services in the Old Church. 

In February, 1891, the chapel was completed and ready for occu- 
pancy. Upon the first Sabbath of that month the last religious services 
in the old church were held. Those of the morning included addresses 
by several speakers upon reminiscences and the historical record of 
the thirty-six years during which the church had occupied the building, 
viz.: 

An Excursion into the Past R. W. King. 

The Old First in the Civil War Gen. F. W. Swift. 

The Visible Record of Thirty-six Years Geo. M. Lane. 

Reminiscences H. E. Baker. 

In the afternoon final communion services were held. At this 
last gathering also the new deacons and deaconesses recently elected 
were formally set apart for their work. The exercises were impres- 
sive, of deep interest, and the day was one which will long be 
remembered for the record it closed. For a generation that house 
had been our church home; and while there was very much that could 
be recalled and expressed by words, there were other associations and 
recollections too sacred and too secret for utterance. The latter could 
only be brought back in silence and alone ; some with emotions of 



HISTORICAL ADDRESS. 47 

great joy and thanksgiving, others with deep grief and kindred feel- 
ings, of which there were evidences by the falling tear or the heart too 
full for expression. 

The New Chapel Occupied. 

Upon the second Sabbath in February the new chapel was first 
occupied for worship, only the usual Sabbath services being held, 
conducted by the pastor, 

With the closing weeks of the year 1891 this beautiful temple, 
erected for the worship and honor of God, and for such services as 
we, His children, can render, approached completion ; and in Decem- 
ber it was ready for dedication. Much as we rejoiced upon that day, 
this second Sabbath of the month, when we entered these courts, the 
day will not longer be remembered nor cherished with deeper interest 
than will those hours of the preceding Sabbath morning, when the 
work of preparation was finished, that the whole building could be 
offered to our God, and no man have any claim upon it. From corner- 
stone to tower-top it was to be the Lord's. Never were the leadings 
or the influences of the Holy Spirit more apparent in the history of 
this church than upon that morning, when the financial statement had 
been made by the chairman of the building committee, and the 
moment had arrived when the willing and hearty offerings of this 
people were solicited that the whole indebtedness for the construction 
of the building should be provided for. It has been called, and per- 
haps with truth, " The memorable hour in the history of this church." 
Willingness soon ripened into desire in the hearts of those present to 
make their offerings unto the Lord ; and that morning the disappoint- 
ment was the heaviest within the hearts of those who had nothing or 
but little they could give. Repeated attempts to close the exercises 
were interrupted by the continued coming of those who wished still 
further to share in the privilege of giving. The whole service was, as 
has been well said : "A token of the deep interest the church felt in 
the enterprise ; a witness of harmony and good will that was an 
inspiration." 

The Dedication. 

Dedication day, December 13th, 1891, was a perfect one, more 
like a beautiful October than a winter day. It seemed as though the 
Lord was smiling upon the offering His people were making. At the 



48 



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communion services, at 9 a. m., 21 members were received, making 134 
additions for the whole year. At the table Drs. Kitchel and Ballard, 

former pastors of the church, 
officiated. The services of dedi- 
cation were at 10:30 a. m. The 
sermon was preached by Rev. 
Henry A. Stimson, D. D., pastor 
of the Pilgrim Church, St. Louis, 
Mo., from the text, " Run, speak 
to that young man, saying Jeru- 
salem shall be inhabited as towns 
without walls, for the multitude 
of men and cattle therein;" Zech. 
ii:4. Revs. H. L. Hammond, 
H. D. Kitchel, D. D., P. R. Hurd, 
D. D., N. S. Wright and J. D. 
Liggett assisted in the services. 
The afternoon was given up to 
exercises by the Sabbath school 
and the Young People's Society 
of Christian Endeavor. Addresses 
were delivered by the Superin- 
tendent of the Sabbath school, 
Mr. W. H. Strong, and Messrs. Geo. R. Angell, P. T. Van Zile and 
Dr. Davis. At the evening service, former pastors gave us narra- 
tive and reminiscence, each dwelling upon the work of the church 
during the years of his own pastorate. It was expected that every 
former pastor of the church would have been present upon this 
occasion ; but only one month before the dedication Dr. Eddy had 
been removed by death, and Deacon H. E. Baker spoke of his work 
during his pastorate of eleven years. Upon Monday evening a 
reception was given by the church to former pastors, and upon 
Tuesday evening congratulatory addresses and greetings were made 
by Rev. Z. Grenell, D. D., of the First Baptist Church ; Rev. Wm. Prall, 
D. D., of St. John's Episcopal Church; Rev. Wallace Radcliffe, D. D., 
of the Fort Street Presbyterian Church ; Rev. C. T. Allen, D. D., of the 
Cass Avenue Methodist Episcopal Church ; Rev. H. P. DeForest, D. D., 
of the Woodward Avenue Congregational Church, and Rev. L. Morgan 
Wood, of the Plymouth Congregational Church. By such services 



Robert W. King. 

Sunday School Superintendent— 1860-I864. 



HISTORICAL ADDRESS. 



49 







>- John Davis. 

Sunday School Superintendent- 



was completed and consecrated a work which for several years had 

engaged the hearts and hands of this people. Never has a church 

received a greater blessing in the 

building of a house for the Lord 

than has come to us in the erec- 
tion of this temple. As we look 

back over the years covering the 

planning and the execution, it is 

plain that we have been led by 

the Head of the Church all the 

way. Such a step has been the 

rock upon which many churches 

have been split and almost wreck- 
ed, but for us this service has 

been a source of good during 

all these years. To-day we are 

stronger for the work completed, 

and happier in all that which we are able to render our God in the 

house He has helped us to build for Him. 

: The prosperity that followed 

the occupancy of our present 
location has fully confirmed the 
judgment and foresight of those 
who from the beginning advocated 
our removal to this part of the 
city. In fact our growth in mem- 
bership and in every department 
of church work has far exceeded 
the expectations and even hopes 
of the most earnest advocates of 
the change. 

Our membership December 31st, 1890, 

was 430 

To-day we number 677 

Showing an increase in membership of more 
than 57 per cent, in four years. 

The enrollment of our Sabbath school Dec. 
31st, 1890, about 175 

To-day it is more than 600 

William H. Strong. 

Sunday School Superintendent— 1891— 




50 THROUGH FIFTY YEARS. 



The Cost of the Lot and Building. 

The cost of the church building, including the fixtures and the 
furnishings, and the lot, is stated by the building committee to have 
been as follows : 

Contracts with Vinton & Co. and Alex. Chapoton, Jr $103,000 00 

Marble work 1,500 00 

Furnace, boilers and heating fixtures 4,050 00 

Electric motor 540 00 

Gas fixtures for chapel 650 00 

Furniture and church furnishings 5,265 00 

Organ $6,oco, less $1,000 allowed for old organ 5,000 00 

Enlargement of chapel over specifications 1,500 00 

Substitution of stone walls between church and chapel, instead 

of brick, as specified 1, 500 00 

Substitution of stone for wood tracery in north and south tran- 
sept windows 1,050 00 

Completion of front Loggia 1,15000 

Additional front steps, not in contract 688 00 

Drains and paving between church and chapel 434 00 

Extras furnished by contractors for changes in basement, net. 952 60 

Grading, sodding and stone walks 965 98 

Architect's fees 10,000 00 

Sundry other items and interest paid, chargeable to building 

fund, estimated in part 6,000 00 

Total cost of church building and furnishings $144,245 58 

Total cost of lot 20,675 00 

Total cost for buildings and lot . $164,920 58 

The balance yet unpaid amounts to about $ 9,000 00 

Pastors' Wives. 

While it is true that few churches have been equally blessed with 
our own in those who have occupied the pastoral office, it is also true 
that few churches have been equally favored in the pastors' wives 
who, from time to time, have come among us. It has come to be 
the fact that often, next to the pastor, there is no one in the church 
who enters the homes and into the hearts of so many as the wife of 
the pastor, and through such ministries her place and influence follows 
close upon that of her husband throughout the parish. In this parish 
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51 



inently fitted for the position and duties which have come to be 
allotted to them. Each has had her individuality, and each has 
wrought faithfully and well in the place she has occupied. 

Of Mrs. Mary J. Hammond, wife of the first pastor of this 
church, very little can now be gathered. She was one of the thirteen 




Mrs. Mary J. Hammond. 

Wife of Rev. H. L. Hammond. 



charter members of this church. Her life among this people was for 
so short a time, only two and one-half years, that a marked impress 
upon the work could hardly be expected. She is remembered with 
pleasure by perhaps the half-dozen remaining with us who can recall 
their acquaintance with her. She was not possessed of those marked 
traits which would constitute her 9. leader of many ; yet she exhibited 



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a beautiful character and life, gentleness of manner, with a gift of 
making friends, and of attaching them strongly to her. Her Christian 
life was earnest and sincere ; she loved the church and the work of her 
Lord, and to the best of her abilities she served it and her Master. 

A dark shadow fell upon the church, and a great sorrow entered 
many hearts, when Mrs. Ann S. Kitchel was removed from us by 




Mrs. Ann S. Kitchel. 

Wife of Rev. H. D. Kitchel. D. D. 



death in June, 1858. She was a wife in whom the heart of her 
husband implicitly trusted, and one whom the church felt they could 
not give up. She had come to occupy a large place in her home, in the 
hearts of the people and in the city; and who could fill it? Mrs. 
Kitchel was a woman of great strength of character, of rare natural 



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53 



abilities, and all were made increasingly effective by her education, 
refinement and the virtues which so adorned her life. Year by year, 
until she closed the decade she was permitted to spend here, she 
grew to fill greater and higher places in the estimation of all who came 
within the range of her acquaintance and influence. She sought not 
for place or preferment, but only was willing to step up and out that 




Mrs. Elisabeth L. Freeland. 

Wife of Rev. S. M. Freeland. 



she might better do her Master's service; yet she preferred quiet and 
unobtrusive ways for accomplishing whatever came into her hands to 
perform. 

It was not my privilege to meet her often or to know much of 
her work; but I can remember her as specially interested in behalf of 
young people, the boys and the girls of the church; and any whom 
she could reach and influence were certain of an invaluable friend and 
counsellor. Her time, strength and all the service she could render 



54 THROUGH FIFTY YEARS. 

were at their command, and her joy was complete could she only do 
them good and show them the better life. Sympathy, charity and 
kindness were always at hand for those in need. Relative to her and 
the place she filled among this people it has been truly said: " Her 
loss to the church was irreparable." 

To write of such a life and character as was that of Mrs. JULIA P. 
Ballard requires the hand of a delicate touch. In her were united 
contrasting characteristics ; shrinking even to timidity, yet courageous; 
gentle, yet firm ; unassuming and retiring yet always ready to do her 
part, however much nature rebelled ; it was her delight to lead and rule 
with love covering the firm hand ; all of which traits were blended into 
a character so rounded and symmetrical, that perhaps one word only 
would fully describe, and that word is "beautiful." 

Rare intellectual gifts were hers, and they were consecrated for 
the uplifting and improvement of all with whom she could come into 
touch. When this church celebrated its quarter-centennial, Dr. Ballard 
at that time being our pastor, the contributions of her graceful pen 
added much to the enjoyment and profit of the services. She was the 
author of eighteen books, many of which are upon the shelves of our 
Sunday school libraries. Her two latest books, viz.: Insect Life 
and Among the Moths and Butterflies, are contributions to science 
of much value, especially to the young, while they have also to such 
an extent commended themselves to naturalists by the charm of their 
style and by their contributions to natural history, as to win for her 
an honorary membership in the London Society of Science, Letters 
and Arts. Her study of Nature, however, in which she took such 
delight, only led her to a closer relation to Nature's God ; indeed, in all 
and through all and dominating all was the " other worldliness," which 
so possessed her heart that her religion was not a thing apart, but was 
her very life. Her love for the Master was so true, and so much a 
part of her very being, that she could say with Paul: "I can do all 
things through Christ who strengtheneth me." 

Once in the early part of her service as a pastor's wife she was 
called to some public duty, from which she shrank with the feeling 
that it was impossible for her to perform it. In speaking of it in after 
years to a friend she said : "All the way from my house to the 
church I kept repeating to myself, ' for Jesus' sake, for Jesus' sake,' 
and for His sake I was able to do it." This was the key-note and 
ruling motive of her life, and it was this perfect consecration which 



HISTORICAL ADDRESS. 55 

enabled her " to overcome " and to fill so successfully in all its varied 
duties the position which devolved upon her as the wife of the pastor. 
Upon April 14, 1894, she fell asleep in this world and wakened 
in the one just beyond. It was to her a going home : — 

God calls our loved ones, but we lose not wholly 

What He has given; 
They live on earth in thought and deed, as truly 

As in His heaven. 

In the eleven years of the life and labors of Mrs. Malvina R. 
Eddy in our midst, this church and the service of the Master in the 
city and State were greatly blessed. It has been allotted to but few 
to fulfill all the ministry which she was able to accomplish. She was 
a person of marked capabilities, and was pre-eminently fitted for the 
duties which came to her hands in the home and in the church. 

By Mrs. Eddy there was a thorough consecration to the work of 
her Lord, whatever it was. What she was in her home many of us 
have witnessed, and have seen that she was thoroughly loyal in such 
service as could be rendered by a faithful wife and mother. In the 
church she was a wise leader and organizer, and was especially effective 
in the execution of whatever she had planned. Added to this conse- 
cration, was a sincere love for the work which was hers to perform. 
For the poor and the afflicted she had sympathy, with such material 
aid and other service as she could render. Sacrifice of personal ease 
and comfort was cheerfully granted, if thereby some call could be 
answered, some gap filled, or a cup of cold water given to some 
thirsty one. 

Especially was the cause of missions dear to her, and woman's 
work in the great enterprises of the church received from her efficient 
aid and support. Of the Woman's Board of Foreign Missions she 
was one of the strongest promoters; and by her similar associations 
were formed among the young ladies and the children of this church 
The local and the home work was made more efficient by the organiza 
tion of the Ladies' Union, not only in the service wrought, but in the 
money secured and disbursed for many worthy objects. In all such 
labors the women of the church could not have received a more hearty 
support than was rendered by Mrs. Eddy. Such value was placed 
by the church upon her eleven years' work that, when she was about 
to leave, a formal expression was made of its appreciation of the 



56 



THROUGH FIFTY YEARS. 



" untiring devotion" of Mrs. Eddy to the best interests of the church 
and the Master's cause, and in the promotion of Christian activity and 
benevolence in all His work. 

At Atlanta, Georgia, Mrs. Eddy finished her work of preparation, 
and commenced the higher duties of her life in the other world, upon 
November 25, 1886. 

I am conscious of a feeling of embarrassment in speaking, even 
briefly, of the service of her who now leads so efficiently the work of 




Mrs. Emma P. Davis. 

Wife of Rev. W. H. Davis, D. D. 



women and children in our midst. She and her life are known to you 
all, and nothing which might now be said could better acquaint you 
with that life and work among us, or cause her to be held in higher 
estimation by this people. For all these ten years she has been 



HISTORICAL ADDRESS. 57 

successful in leadership, tireless in the labors which have fallen to her 
hands, manifesting a wisdom beyond the experience of her years. 
Sympathetic in all that enters any home or heart, whether of joy or 
grief, success or misfortune; cordial and sincere in word and life, her 
presence invariably brings light, cheer and comfort. She is in the 
midst of her days and service among this people; all hearts unite in 
the hope that these days may be multiplied into many years before 
she shall be removed from us. 

The Diaconate. 

Sherman S. Barnard and Chas. Howard were the two deacons first 
elected by this church. These men were quite marked in their con- 
trasts in character and in the tenor of their lives. Deacon Barnard 
will be remembered by many present, for he was spared until August, 
1 88 1. He was an active, energetic and successful business man for 
his day, and for twenty or more years was well known in commercial 
circles in our city and State. He was a man of marked force of 
character and great persistency. To yield was not always easy with 
him, yet he sincerely loved that which was good and right, and favored 
whatever he believed was promotive of such results. Of his work 
for this church, and what he sacrificed for it, mention has already 
been made. As exhibiting his affection for the church, I recall one 
incident which occurred during his closing years. It will be remem- 
bered that nearly two years intervened between the pastorates of Drs. 
Ballard and Eddy. At that time it seemed to him that his years 
were nearly numbered, though his life was unexpectedly prolonged. 
He took great interest in the choice and in the coming of the new 
pastor. I remember meeting him one day near his home walking 
with much feebleness, and conversation soon turned upon the absorb- 
ing thought in his heart. He uttered with deep emotion his belief 
that probably his days were well nigh numbered, but, with a manner 
which impressed itself upon me at the time, he expressed a longing 
desire that he might be spared to see and to greet a new pastor over 
this church ; showing evidently that it was a matter of great interest 
and concern to him. 

Deacon Chas. Howard will be remembered by few now with us, 
as he removed from the city in 1861. He was a man of quiet life, 
kindly and genial in manner, always ready, so far as possible, " to lend 
a hand " where needed, large hearted, sympathetic in disposition, and 





58 Through fifty years. 

a friend to any who needed a friend. In church work he was always 
ready and service seemed a pleasure to him. I remember him away 
back in the fifties, at the mid-week church meetings. He generally 

occupied the same sitting, and when the 
pastor had concluded the opening ser- 
vices, Deacon Howard, like good Dea- 
con Walker of later days, was generally 
the first to follow with remark or prayer. 
By both these men the church was 
well served for many years. They were 
biennially re-elected until 1849, when 
Silas M. Holmes was chosen a third 
deacon. About this time a proposition 
to elect deacons for an unlimited term 
failed. At the election in January, 
1856, five were chosen for the ensuing 
. two years, viz.: Deacons Barnard, 

tv/t„o D „„ r c TT ~x T Howard and Holmes re-elected, with 

Mrs. Bessie G. Bourn. ' 

Deaconess— 1891-1892. Messrs. Lyman Baldwin and Francis 

Raymond added. At the election 
in 1861, after a service of twelve years, Deacon Holmes declined 
a re-election, and Deacon Howard had removed, or was about to 
remove, from the city. The five then chosen were Deacons Barnard, 
Baldwin and Raymond re-elected, with Messrs. C. I. Walker and 
William Warner new members of the Board; In 1865 the wisdom 
of such frequent elections was again questioned, and all the deacons 
resigned, the alleged reason being " to enable the church to effect 
such election with as little variation as may be from Congrega- 
tional polity." The resignations were accepted, and it was then 
voted " that this church now proceed to the election of five deacons 
subject to the established usages of Congregationalism." If the 
members knew what these "established usages" were, they failed to 
state them, and the church was left quite as much in the dark as ever. 
Deacons Baldwin, Barnard and Raymond were continued, and Mr. T. 
L. Partridge was chosen a new member. The fifth member was not 
elected. At the annual meeting in 1866 Messrs. C. I. Walker and C. 
E. Silsbee were selected additional members of the board, and the 
services of Deacon Walker have continued since then without inter- 
ruption. In 1869 and 1870 unsuccessful efforts again were made to 



HISTORICAL ADDRESS. 59 

prescribe some limit to the term of office, and without interpreting 
what was " Congregational usage," Messrs. H. E. Bostwick and H. E. 
Baker were added to the Diaconate in 1868, and Geo. M. Lane in 
1874. In 1878 E. C. Hinsdale and Frank Milligan were elected "to 
serve during the continuance of their church membership with this 
church." 

At length, in 1891, decisive action was taken relative to the 
official term for deacons, in a rule providing that thereafter they 
should be elected for four years, and that they should be ineligible for 
re-election for one year after the expiration of their terms of office. 
By that action the unwritten law of the church relative to those then 
in office was understood to be that they should continue in service 
so long as they were members of the church, unless removed for 
cause. Three new deacons were then elected, viz.: Messrs. Allan 
Bourn, A. H. Bigg and E. D. Jones. Subsequent additions to the 
board have been Mr. Thos. Donnelly, in 1892, and Mr. David Ogilvie, 
in 1894, vice Deacon Allan Bourn, resigned. 

In 1882, the question of establishing the office of deaconess was 
brought before the church for consideration by the request of the 
pastor. The matter was referred to a 
committee composed wholly of ladies, and 
by them it was opposed. That killed it 
for that time. In 1890, however, the pro- 
position was again considered ; it met 
with favor and was adopted. The rule 

provided for the election of eight dea- ** 1 

conesses, each for the term of four years 
without eligibility for re-election for one 
year after the expiration of terms of 
service. In 1891, at the closing services 
held at the old church on Fort street, the 
following, having been elected to the office, 
were formally set apart for their work, viz.: 

Mrs. Frances C. Wright, Mrs. Mary H. Miss May c Mallory , 

Hall, Miss May C. Mallory, Mrs. Bessie G. Deaconess— 1891— 

Bourn, Miss Laura S. Adams, Mrs. Jane 

Smith, and Miss Martha L. Miller. To fill vacancies, the following 
additional deaconesses have been selected, viz.: Mrs. Helen A. Clark 




60 THROUGH FIFTY YEARS. 

and Mrs. Sadie J. Kiskadden. The board to-day is composed of those 
named, except that Mrs. Bourn resigned by reason of her removal 
from the city. 

The Missionary Spirit and Work. 

It is a cause for thanksgiving that this church has so generally 
been animated by an active missionary spirit and a desire to promote 
Christ's Kingdom at home and abroad. Our records for fifty years 
show a sincere effort in aiding to belt the whole earth with the gospel 
of the Redeemer. Before we were twelve months old the church, 
by a formal vote, established the Monthly Concert of prayer for the 
conversion of the world, and it has been maintained ever since with 
rare, if any, interruptions. I believe this to have been one of the 
happiest and most important acts taken by this young church, or that 
could be taken by any church, as a regulation for its future life. Was 
that action taken in vain and has it failed to bear fruit? I find by 
the records of the Treasurer's office of the American Board of Com- 
missioners for Foreign Missions, in Boston, Mass., that during the 
first year of our existence this church is credited with $268.37 con - 
tributed for the work of that great organization, and that every year 
since then, without exception, that Board has been remembered by 
this church with material aid. Upon the statistical statement 
prepared, showing the record of our benevolences for fifty years, there 
is not one blank space opposite the name of that society during all 
that time. 

The record for that other grand organization, the American (now 
the Congregational) Home Missionary Society, is almost the same as 
that of the American Board. There are only six years out of the fifty, 
during which it is reported that aid from this church was not received 
for that work. I am quite confident, however, there is some error in 
that report, and that a more careful examination would show there 
are not even six years when offerings were not made for that society 
by this people. 

The records of our church show that previous to January, 1875, 
when weekly Sabbath offerings were commenced, the planning for 
regular and systematic collections for our benevolences and the most 
efficient methods for taking them, were matters of frequent consid- 
eration at annual and other meetings of the church ; while later 
records of work in the organizations of our woman's boards, young 



HISTORICAL ADDRESS. 6l 

ladies' and children's associations, Sabbath school and Young People's 
Society, all show that the spirit of that early action of 1845 nas been a 
moving influence in the hearts of this people all these years, and has 
added greatly to the power and success of this church in all its work. 

City Evangelization. 

In city evangelization the church has always taken an active inter- 
est. At the first annual church meeting ever held, viz., in January, 
1865, reports were received from members working in seven different 
mission Sabbath schools, either as officers or teachers, though the church 
had not up to that time assumed control of any special school or 
mission. Members, however, contributed liberally in aid of such work 
when solicited. At that first annual meeting, however, a committee 
was appointed to report upon the wisdom and need of establishing a 
Sabbath school in the ninth ward. The mission was soon organized, 
but not in the name of the church. Mr. D. M. Richardson inaugurated, 
took charge of the work, and was responsible for the same for about 
nine years, erecting at his own charge, or with such aid as individually 
he could secure, a large and commodious chapel upon the corner of 
Howard street and Trumbull avenue. The school was also largely 
manned by members from this church. In 1875 the church, by a 
formal vote, assumed charge of the school, and held itself responsible 
for its entire management, supplying teachers and funds for the work. 
Mr. Richardson continued as superintendent until 1876, when, after a 
service of ten or more years, he declined a re-election, and Mr. M. L. 
Williams was selected his successor. Each of these gentlemen gave 
many years of faithful and efficient services, besides material aid, and 
to them are we largely indebted for the great prosperity that has 
always characterized the work. 

In January, 1876, about two months after assuming control of the 
Trumbull avenue school, a like supervision was taken of the " Fort 
Wayne Sabbath School." This mission was first organized in a small 
room within the limits of the fort, and afterwards was removed outside 
the fortifications. Mr. W. H. Scott about that time was the superinten- 
dent, but not long after, by reason of Mr. Scott's removal from the 
city, Mr. W. H. Russell, now of Omaha, Nebraska, became his 
successor, and for many years he was the efficient and faithful leader 
of the work, 



62 



THROUGH FIFTY YEARS. 



In 1880 the church called Rev. R. W. Wallace, of London, 
Ontario, to take charge of these two missions, preaching upon the 
Sabbath at each station, and also doing pastoral work in the two 
fields ; the expectation being that, in the near future, churches would 
be organized at both places. In the following April, 1881, this was 
accomplished ; about twenty individuals took letters from this church 
to unite with the Trumbull Avenue (now the Plymouth) Congrega- 
tional Church, and several for the Fort Wayne Church. 

Both of these churches continued under the care of Mr. Wallace 
until the close of his first year's engagement, when his whole service 
was devoted to the Trumbull avenue work, and other provision was 
made for the Fort Wayne Church. Both of these are now vigorous and 
growing churches, and are known one as the Plymouth and the other 
the Fort Street Congregational Churches. 

This church continued its direct aid and supervision over these 
two missions, contributing annually towards their support, until they 
were assumed and became part of the work of the Detroit Congre- 
gational Union, our denominational board, through which our city 
mission work has been prosecuted. Through that organization our 
yearly offerings have ranged from $1,200 to $2,000 or more, besides 

responding to special frequent ap- 
peals for help in the erection of 
chapels or other objects made neces- 
sary by the prosperity of the work. 
The Canfield avenue and the 
Mount Hope missions and the 
Brewster Congregational Church 
never came exclusively under the 
care of this church, but have always 
been a part of the work of the 
Detroit Congregational Union. We 
have always, however, been so deeply 
interested in them, that they seem 
a part of us, and it is only just, 
perhaps, that they should be noticed 
in connection with our city work. 
Mention is made of the tireless and self-sacrificing devotion of our 
brother, the Rev. N. S. Wright, who founded the Canfield Avenue 
Mission in 1883, and who for a decade or more has superintended the 




Mrs. Sadie J. Kiskadden. 
1893- 



HISTORICAL ADDRESS. 63 

various interests which have grown and centered in and about that work. 
Out of the latter has come the initial organization of a church of about 
thirty members, of which Mr. Wright has had the pastoral charge. The 
work includes a large Sabbath School, with various departments ; a 
Christian Endeavor Society ; an association of the ladies, and possibly 
other organizations, all actively engaged in the interests and duties 
belonging to such societies. 

A like church organization has also been formed among the Poles, 
under the earnest labors of Rev. Jno. Lewis, the Polish missionary of 
the Union, who for many years has worked among his people. 
Sixteen have been gathered into the fold. For aid and convenience, 
the membership of both these " branches " stands with this church, 
but only until they shall have attained sufficient strength for inde- 
pendent organizations. This, it is believed, will not be far in the future. 

The Mount Hope Sabbath School was formed about twelve years 
since by Mr. W. H. Russell, and for several years he was its faithful 
leader. To Mr. Allan Bourn, the successor of Mr. Russell, we are 
much indebted, not only for the many years of invaluable personal 
service he rendered that school and church, but for his munificence in 
the erection of a commodious building occupied by the mission, and 
which is so perfectly adapted for all the departments of work centered 
at Mount Hope. Since the removal of Mr. Bourn from the city 
several years ago, Mr. J. A. Reichrath has been the efficient superin- 
tendent of the school. 

Brewster is the latest born of our circle of churches. Young, yet 
old. She has had no birthday, and counts her days only by weeks, 
or, at the most, only by months, and yet she is old by reason of her 
strength, her works, and the position she has taken in the sisterhood 
of the Christian churches of the city. From the day of her organiza- 
tion, nearly one hundred strong, she has had no struggle. She sprung 
into life matured and well equipped for the service for which existence 
was given her. About thirty left us for this new work, with the 
heartiest prayers and good will of this church, rejoicing with her in 
the rich harvest that could almost be seen and measured upon the day 
of seed sowing and of planting. At each communion since organiza- 
tion goodly numbers have come into the fold, as evidence of the faith- 
ful work being done in that part of the vineyard, and that the favor 
and blessing of the Great Head of the Church surely rests and abides 
with that people. 



64 through fifty years. 

The Ballot for Women in the Church. 

The question of suffrage for women in the church has received 
more or less attention from an early day in our history, and much like 
the same question in politics, it would not remain " settled " until 
decided in favor of the women. 

In February, 1845, ^ ess than sixty days after the organization of 
the church, the motion "That our rules be so amended as to permit 
female members to vote on admission of members" to the church was 
tabled for future action, but there is no record that it was again 
considered. The question slept for a long time, but did not die. At 
the election for deacons in March, 1861, by special vote "the sisters 
in the church were permitted to vote," but the rule was not changed. 
The third time the matter received attention was at a church meeting 
in May, 1866, when a motion to change the rules, to permit female 
members to vote at church meetings was tabled. This time, however, 
it was settled for only about two years. In October, 1868, a motion 
granting suffrage to female members "was laid upon the table and the 
matter referred to pastor and deacons," but the committee never 
reported. In September, 1870, the motion was actually adopted to 
strike out the word "brethren" where it refers to voting and insert the 
word " members." But at this time the right of suffrage was extended 
to our ladies only fourteen days, for in two weeks the vote was 
reconsidered and the old rule restored. Four years later, in 1874, the 
seventh attempt failed and for another term of four years elections 
were not disturbed. Nevertheless the leaven continued to work and 
in November, 1878, the following new rule was adopted by substan- 
tially a unanimous vote: "Article 4, Sec. 4. All members of this church 
of twenty-one years of age and upwards in full and regular standing 
shall be entitled to vote on all questions coming before the church for 
action; every rule of this church now in force conflicting with the 
foregoing, is to that extent hereby made of no effect." No attempt 
has been made since that date to change or modify the rule, and it 
seems to be as well established as any of our church statutes. 

Our Representatives in the Civil War. 
In his quarter-centennial address Judge Walker spoke somewhat 
in detail of those from this church and congregation who served in the 
army during the civil war, and Gen. F. W. Swift in his address at the 
closing exercises held in the old church dwelt even more at length on 
the same subject. With such records already made, only a brief 



HISTORICAL ADDRESS. 65 

mention of these patriotic services will now be necessary. We cannot 
too highly honor the memories or value the sacrifices then rendered 
by our men in the struggle. The Nation lives, but her life was only 
preserved by the labors and lives of the almost unknown multitudes 
who gave themselves for her preservation. This government and 
people have manifested their gratitude and appreciation for what the 
" boys in blue" accomplished, and we cannot speak with too great 
reverence and honor of those of our number who were at the front in 
those dark days in our nation's history. With gratitude, therefore, 
to-night we recall and name them for what they have done for us, viz.: 

Edwin S. Acker, 9th Michigan Infantry. 
James C. Acker, 2nd Michigan Cavalry. 
Chas. H. Curtiss, 7th Michigan Infantry. 
Stephen S. Barrows, 9th Michigan Infantry. 
Francis Raymond, Jr., 24th Michigan Infantry. 
Chas. J. Nall, Medical Staff, Regular Army. 
Henry W. Nall, 7th and 24th Michigan Infantry. 
Frank W. Rice, 1st Michigan Infantry. 
John Tyler, 1st and 17th Michigan Infantry. 
Wm. S. Bliss, 1st Michigan Light Artillery. 
E. M. Conklin, 9th Michigan Infantry. 
G. S. WORMER, 8th Michigan Cavalry. 
Frederick W. Swift, 17th Michigan Infantry. 
Herbert Adams, 24th Michigan Infantry. 
Luther S. Trowbridge, 5th Michigan Cavalry. 
H. D. EDWARDS, 1st Massachusetts Cavalry. 

PHILETUS W. NORRIS, : Ohio Infantry. 

Geo. M. Lane, 1st Michigan Engineers and Mechanics. 

Dr. Dwight Stebbins served as a volunteer surgeon for the Sani- 
tary Commission, Rev. O. C. Thompson was in the employ of the 
Christian Commission for a time, and L. F. Harter was in the Pay- 
master's Department of the Navy. 

Those who were killed or died in the service were Henry W. 
Nall, Wm. S. Bliss, Edward M. Conklin, Herbert Adams and Dr. 
Dwight Stebbins. 

The Record of Membership. 

Our church life began with thirteen members, and to-day we bear 
upon our rolls of membership 677. 



66 



THROUGH FIFTY YEARS. 

STATEMENT OF MEMBERSHIP. 



Year Ending 
Dec. 31 



1844 

1845 

1846 

1847 

1848 

1849 

1850 

1851 

1852 

1853 

1854 

1855 

1856 

1857 

1858 

1859 

i860 

1861 

1862 

1863 

1864 

1865 

1866 

1867. ... 

1868. ... 

1869 

1870 

1871 

1872 

1S73 

1874 

1875 

1876 

1877 

1878 , 

1879 

1880 

1881 

1882 

1883 

1884 

1885 

1886 

1887 

1888 

1889 

1890 .... 

1891 

1892 

1893 

1894 

Unknown 

Total 



Admissions. 



By Con- 
fession. 



1 

7 

7 

22 

35 
4 
3 

29 

4 

2 

1 

21 

12 

9 

47 

10 

2 

1 

11 

5 
6 

55 
7 
9 

10 

21 

16 

9 

4 

5 

46 



39 
18 

3 

50 
5 

8 

3 
4 

22 
12 

23 
14 
21 
16 

4i 

28 
26 
65 



849 



By 

Letter. 



34 
16 
8 
26 
16 
20 

3i 
26 

19 
12 
30 
4i 
27 

25 
17 
12 
16 

18 

13 

7 

32 

8 

9 
9 
9 
22 
10 
3 

19 
72 
21 

23 
24 

25 
15 
16 
6 
16 
10 

13 
29 

31 
13 
11 

14 
17 
71 
43 
58 
49 



i,i33 



Total. 



41 
23 
30 
61 
20 

23 
60 
30 
21 
13 
5i 
53 
36 
72 
27 
14 
17 
29 
18 

13 

87 
15 

18 

19 
30 
38 
x 9 
7 
24 
118 

33 
4i 
63 
43 
18 
66 
11 
24 
13 
17 
5i 
43 
36 
25 
35 
33 
112 

7i 

84 
114 



1,982 



Dismissed 

by 
Letter. 



11 

13 

4 

9 

12 

5 
10 
16 
22 
38 
14 
10 
20 
11 
15 
23 
15 
25 
128 
12 

3 
11 

19 
11 

13 
10 

5 

19 
17 
19 
15 

9 
29 
47 
28 

19 
32 
29 
19 
14 
26 

17 
23 
22 

19 

15 
34 

5 

95i 



Deaths. 



6 
10 

5 

229 



Cut Off. 



36 



3 

3 

13 

1 
12 

2 

21 
3 



125 



HISTORICAL ADDRESS. 6j 

In the foregoing statement, the members of the Polish branch, 
and of the Canfield Avenue branch, are not included, although the 
standing of the members of both these branches is with this 
church. 

During these fifty years we have had many seasons when the 
presence and the power of the Holy Spirit was especially manifest to 
convict and to save, in answer to the united prayer of His people. 
Then there have been others when spiritual famine prevailed, and 
the vineyard of the Lord was dry and barren. Generally, however, 
His abiding in the hearts of this people has been apparent, and the 
word preached or spoken has been fruitful according to the promises. 

During the early months of 1847, Rev. Chas. G. Finney labored in 
this church in connection with the pastor; and in the following winter, 
viz., 1847-8, the services of the evangelist, Rev. J. T. Avery, were 
secured for a season. The results of all this work were manifest in the 
growth of the church in numbers and in strength. The years 185 1 
and 1852 were fruitful ones, both in conversions and in the increase of 
membership. The great revivals of the winter and spring of 1858 will 
be remembered by many, and our own church shared in the fruitage of 
that work. Union meetings were held, but the pastors led in the work 
in their own parishes, generally without special help. About fifty were 
added to this church upon confession of faith, and a large number by 
letter. By many the labors of Rev. E. P. Hammond in the winter 
and spring of 1865-6, will be recalled. As the result of that work nearly 
sixty were added to our number by confession of faith, and thirty 
brought letters from other churches. The years 1874, 1876, 1877, 
1878 and 1880 were seasons when the church was especially blessed; 
the earnest, faithful work of our pastor in the preaching of the Word 
bringing goodly numbers into the church. The work for 1880 was 
materially aided by the co-labors of Dr. Geo. R. Pentecost, who 
preached for several weeks in our church, continuing afterwards the 
services at the Fort Street Presbyterian Church. The decade of years 
commencing with 1885 has been marked by steady accessions to our 
membership; those years have been among the most fruitful ones in 
the history of our church. During that period our pastor received no 
assistance until the memorable winter of 1893-4. At that time many 
of our pastors and churches united with Dr. J. Wilbur Chapman in a 
work extending throughout almost the entire city. Never before was 
Detroit so moved from center to circumference by the power of the 



68 



THROUGH FIFTY YEARS. 




Holy Spirit as during those eventful weeks. Unbelievers and those 
who manifested little or no sympathy with the work, were compelled 
to witness and acknowledge the wonderful presence of the Spirit 

moving and working so mysteriously 
within the hearts of men. Wherever 
the Word was preached the churches 
were thronged, while the spectacle of the 
thousands crowding the Auditorium day 
and night would have been almost beyond 
belief, had it not been witnessed. All 
the churches uniting were greatly blessed 
and strengthened. Our own reaped a 
fruitful harvest, making the record of 
1894, the fiftieth of our semi-centennial, 
among the best in the history of the 
church for its increase in membership, 
viz.: 65 on confession, and 49 by letter, a 
total of 1 14. 
~* Special mention has been made of 

ingatherings when evangelistic help was 
employed in the service. In that do not think we would belittle 
or fail to appreciate and honor the faithful labors of the pastors 
of the church. At the time of great harvests we rejoice when 
our eye can scarcely compass the limits of the fields of grain ready for 
the reaper, or when we see the barns filled and the presses bursting with 
" new wine." At such times do we give credit for all of this to the 
hired laborers of the day? Rather, we remember, with gratitude, 
the husbandmen who for years have cleared, have cultivated, mellowed, 
enriched, plowed, cast in the seed and made the harvest possible. 
To-night, therefore, we remember the men who have all these fifty 
years wrought faithfully and have made such rich ingatherings 
possible. To-night it is with pleasure we name and honor Hammond, 
Kitchel, Freeland, Ballard, Eddy and Davis. They have been our 
leaders these fifty years, and with the faithful men and women who 
have prayed and worked together with them, all of whose agencies 
God hath blessed, have made it possible that we should see this day 
in our history with all its precious fruits and reminiscences. 



Mrs. Helen A. Clark. 

Deaconess — 1892 — J | 



HISTORICAL ADDRESS. 69 



The Sabbath School and Other Church Organizations. 

Beyond the fact that immediately upon the organization of the 
church it was voted that upon January 12, 1845, a Sabbath school 
would also be organized, no record exists for nearly ten years relative 
to that very important branch of church work. In January, 1853, 
Deacon Chas. Howard was elected superintendent, but it is nowhere 
stated who were his predecessors. It is thought, however, that he also 
served in that office most, if not all, the preceding years of the exist- 
ence of the school. Succeeding him, the following individuals have 
served as superintendents in the order named, viz.: Rev. O. C. 
Thompson, Messrs. C. S. Cushing, H. E. Baker, R. W. King, E. C. 
Hinsdale, R. W. King a second term, H. E. Bostwick, Geo. M. Lane, 
Allan Bourn, John Davis and W. H. Strong. 

No record can be found of offerings made by the school previous 
to 1865, but there is no doubt offerings were made during many, if 
not all, those earlier years. For 1865 they amounted to $193, and 
during 1866 to $241. Commencing with 1865, and including 1894, 
the aggregate amount collected by the school is $11,737, not 
counting the $1,000 paid by the school into the church building 
fund in aid of the erection of this church building. With that, 
the record is almost $13,000 for the thirty years. 

The work of the bible school has 
always been of great efficiency and value, 
not only to the church for the yearly 
increase in strength and numbers which it 
has steadily received from that source, 
and for the material aid obtained through 
Sabbath offerings, but because of the 
planting of the seed during all these fifty 
years which has leavened the hearts and 
the lives of many thousands of children 

who have received the Word. 

A , ■ , ... , . r . Miss Laura S. Adams. 

And just here it is gratifying to 

J ° J o Deaconess — 1891— 

make mention of a very happy feature 

which has become so apparent in the lives of many of our children 
and young people, members of our Sabbath school and other 
church organizations, viz.: the interest manifested by them in all 
that pertains to the welfare and the prosperity of the church. Of late 




7o 



THROUGH FIFTY YEARS. 



they have appeared to take increased delight in the hours spent within 
these walls, and to place a higher value upon the work and activities 
continually alive in and about these rooms. If this homely feeling 
and interest can be maintained, and also the belief impressed upon 
them that it is their privilege to share in all that is here being wrought; 
that this church and all it represents is as much for them to enjoy as for 
those who are older, the educational influences for good in their lives 
during all their years will exceed measure or estimate. 

The oldest association among the women of the church is the 
Women's Board of Foreign Missions. It was first a union organiza- 
tion formed in 1869, and included women from Presbyterian and Con- 
gregational churches. Early in 1871 the constituency of the Presby- 
terian churches withdrew to prosecute their own work. The ladies of 
this church and of the Woodward Avenue Congregational Church 
continued in a single society until 1879, wnen they divided. Since 
then each church has had its own board, and women of this church 
alone have provided for the support of Mrs. Cofring, their missionary 
in Hadjin, Turkey. Since the organization of the board, in 1869, the 
ladies of this church have contributed $9,134 for their work in foreign 

lands. 

The Young Ladies' Circle was formed 
in 1874, and was the first society of young 
ladies organized in this State for work in 
foreign missions. For twenty years they 
have gleaned here and there, and during 
those years they have sent $3,264 to aid 
the cause for which they were banded 
together. The "Circle " has recently been 
reorganized, and is now known as the 
Young Ladies' Guild. 

The little children of the church were 
also united in 1874 into the Sunbeam 
Band for the same work. Their mites 
gathered into little barrels and boxes and 
sent on their mission of love foot up 
$2,385. 
The Ladies' Union, the society through which the women of the 

church aid a great number of home interests, was organized in 1873. 

This work, so faithfully and energetically pushed all these twenty-one 

years, cannot be measured by the dollar-and-cent rule, and what they 




Mrs. Frances C. Wright. 

Deaconess — 1891-1895. 



HISTORICAL ADDRESS. 



71 





Mrs. Mary H. Hall. 

Deaconess— 1891-1895. 



have accomplished cannot be fully described by words. The poor 
have been clothed and fed; the sick visited, comforted and provided 
with many needed supplies ; our church home, from time to time, has 
been beautified and many attractions 
added ; often the burden of debt has been 
made lighter by that which they have 
contributed ; scores of boxes and barrels 
filled with many comforts for cold win- 
ters have been sent to the faithful laborers 
in the Master's vineyard in our own and 
in other States, and goodly sums annually 
have gone into the treasuries of various 
National and State organizations to help 
prosecute the home-land work. Com. 
mencing with 1873, the total amount of 
money raised by the Union for its many 
charitable and other objects amounts 
to $13,635. In addition to all thi s 
must be included the $5,000 which 
they have raised for the church building 

fund. The latter has been included from year to year in the financial 
statements of the trustees while they were providing for this building. 
This makes a total of nearly $19,000 collected by our ladies and dis- 
bursed through this one channel since the organization of the Union. 

Nearly two years since the Union and the Women's Board of 
Foreign Missions were consolidated into a single organization known 
as the Woman's Association. The work of the two former societies is 
now carried on by the one organization. 

A young people's society, under some name, has existed in the 
church since quite an early period in its history. Such organizations 
were originally formed chiefly for religious and social purposes. There 
is no record of anything done in the name of the young people for 
mission or other causes until about twenty years ago, although it is 
more than probable the beginning of such work was at a much earlier 
date. 

In 1875 they raised $172.00, and the aggregate of their offerings 
since that year is $2,046. In addition to that amount, the society 
pledged $1,000 for the building fund for the erection of this church. 
Nearly the whole of this has already been raised, and the balance is 
assured in the near future. 



72 THROUGH FIFTY YEARS. 

The Young People's Society of Christian Endeavor succeeded the 
previous organization in 1884, and within the past year the Junior 
Endeavor Society has been formed. Both of these organizations are 
active and effective in all the lines of work undertaken by such 
associations. The membership of the older society is about 90, and of 
the juniors about 60. 

The Young Men's Club is one of the younger organizations of the 
church, having been formed since our removal to this location. Its 
purpose is to offer such literary and social advantages, including the 
military drill, as shall be educational and attractive for the boys and 
young men of the church, and which shall bind them more closely to 
all the good work and influences which center in and about the House 
of the Lord. Its membership is now about 70. 

In this record of our church organizations and workers should not 
be omitted a mention of the Ivy Leaves, one of our children's 
bands. Its existence, though not continued for many years, was full of 
good works, and helping hands were freely extended where aid and 
sympathy could be rendered. Their memorial is ever present before 
us, in the beautiful lectern they purchased for the chapel, reminding 
us almost daily of their labors of love for the church and its work. 
Their mites cast into the Lord's treasury amounted to about $225, 
including $60 contributed for the church building fund. 

Church Benefactions. 
* A statement somewhat in detail has been prepared, showing the 
amount contributed each year during the half-century for the chari- 
table work of the church, and, so far as possible, the causes are named 
for which these contributions were made. A like statement has also 
been prepared showing the amount raised each year for the use of the 
society. The sums disbursed for current expenses, and those for 
church building and extraordinary repairs or improvements are each 
given separately, so far as it has been possible. 

No annual meeting of the church was held until 1865 ; our records 
of the offerings of the church during the first twenty years of its 
existence are therefore imperfect, while for some years no records 
whatever can be found. So far as information has been secured 
relative to such gifts, it is reasonably correct, but a true record, could 
one be obtained, would doubtless show a material increase over the 
aggregate reported for those twenty years. Since 1865 the informa- 
tion is quite satisfactory, and is believed to be reliable. 

* See accompanying statistical tables, pp. 76-79. 



HISTORICAL ADDRESS. 73 

Annual meetings of the society have been held each year since its 
organization; its records are therefore generally complete, and the 
yearly exhibits of receipts and disbursements are substantially correct 
as reported. 

While these statements are valuable for reference and for the 
information contained, it is impracticable to speak but for a few 
moments at this hour of what they show. Among the largest annual 
offerings of the church, including in some instances individual gifts, 
may be named the following: In 1893, $13,966, which included 
$6,214 raised for the Brewster Chapel; in 1888 church offerings 
amounted to $8,424, besides which might be mentioned $9,000 given 
by Mr. Philo Parsons to Olivet College. Including the liberal gift of 
Mr. Allan Bourn for the building of Mount Hope Chapel, the total 
cost of which exceeded $8,000, all of which was secured or paid by 
him, and another payment by Mr. Parsons to Olivet College, the total 
record for 1889 is $26,140. For 1874 the aggregate is $11,423; for 
1873, $10,632; for 1871, $8,485, and for 1870, $11,664. These latter 
sums include liberal gifts by many of our people for Olivet College 
and Chicago Theological Seminary. 

But really some of the best work of this kind was wrought away 
back in the '60s, when we consider our numbers and ability, excepting 
years when the society had expensive building operations on hand. In 
1865 our offerings for the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign 
Missions were nearly $1,400, and for two or three other years about 
that time they amounted nearly to $1,000 annually for the same 
cause. During the same years the American Home Missionary 
Society was remembered by substantially equal amounts, and various 
needy churches were helped in 1867 to $1,655 m the erection of their 
houses of worship. Bear in mind that our membership then was less 
than 300, or about 265 or 270 after the organization of the Woodward 
avenue church in the spring of 1866, and we had no associations of our 
ladies to work like busy bees in aid of all these causes. 

The total offerings of the church for the half century, so far as 
they can be ascertained, exceed $239,900. Had a complete record 
been made and preserved of the offerings of the church for the first 
twenty years of its history, I have little doubt the aggregate for the 
fifty years would have reached a round quarter of a million of dollars. 

Society figures show largest aggregates when building operations 
or extensive repairs and improvements were in hand. The construc- 
tion of our present house of worship required by far the heaviest out- 



74 



THROUGH FIFTY YEARS. 



lay. The largest amount raised during any single year was in 1892, 
when $36,159 was collected, of which $25,112 was for building pur- 
poses. The total amount raised during the fifty years just closing was 

$425,070, of which about $238,234 was 
for current expenses, and $186,836 for 
church building purposes, including extra- 
ordinary improvements and repairs. The 
total record of the half-century for church 
and society exceeds $665,000. 




Miss Martha L. Miller. 

Deaconess — i8qi — 



CONCLUSION. 

To-night our thoughts have been turned 
backward. An attempt has been made to 
focus the record of fifty years into almost 
fifty minutes. To do this, and to touch 
upon so much which has crowded for 
notice, has led often to doubt and even 
embarrassment what to say and what to 
leave unsaid. Of necessity, only brief 
mention may have been made of history and reminiscence, which to some 
present may have seemed worthy of a more extended notice; while prob- 
ably not a little of interest, known to others, has entirely escaped atten- 
tion. With all imperfections, however, it is hoped the record given may 
have recalled much which has rekindled pleasant thoughts, precious 
memories and emotions of gratitude and thankfulness for what the 
Lord has done for us and for what He has permitted us to do for Him. 
We have completed fifty years of labor, experiencing discouragements 
and seasons when the burdens seemed greater than could be borne ; 
yet in them all has come to us, even as to Ashur, the realization of the 
promise given by God through Moses: "As thy day so shall thy 
strength be." 

Above all the weariness of body and spirit which has been endured 
has been experienced the satisfaction which springs from service ; 
the comfort which follows consecration and the assurance of accept- 
ance ; the evidence of the unfailing leadership of the Head of the 
Church, and the great joy and peace which have been realized when 
the Holy Spirit has manifested so often in our midst His willingness 
and power to instruct, to guide and to save. 

I believe it can be truly said that during all these fifty years we 
have been led steadily onward into wider fields and upward to greater 



HISTORICAL ADDRESS. 



75 



opportunities. The kind and gracious presence of the Lord has been 
manifest in many ways and during many seasons. Yea, in adversity 
and in trial we have obtained " the victory " when faith was strength- 
ened and the hand accepted which is ever extended to lead all who 
are in trouble or doubt out into the Light. Certainly, at the close of 
this fiftieth year, we rejoice in all this, but do we realize what this 
means and what a stewardship it carries? Instead of 13 we are more 
than 600 strong, and no like company in all the Church Militant, in this 
world, is better equipped with every appliance for earnest and successful 
service than are we. Are we all quick to follow where the Master 
leads, and to obey when He calls? 

Looking now forward: With what purpose and resolution do 
you, do we, stand upon the threshold of the second semi-centennial, 
and with what purpose and resolution is the forward step taken? 

I see here to-night many who are young in years. I wonder if 
there are any among us who will be here fifty years hence at the 
" centennial"? It is possible that the boy now sits in some one of 
these seats, or the girl — who knows? — who will stand upon this platform 
at that time and take up and continue 
the record where we leave it to-night. I 
wonder what that record will be ! 

There are also here, besides others of 
our fellowship too feeble to join in this 
service, not a few whose white hairs 
declare in unmistakable language that we \ 
shall not walk much farther or longer I 
with this people. Our faces are toward ( 
the setting sun, our work is well nigh 
finished and the account of our steward- 
ship must soon be rendered. Very soon 
one by one we shall begin to fall. In 
behalf of these, who will soon be called, 
let this injunction be laid upon those 
who shall continue longer in the service: 
Be faithful; keep the fire upon the 

altar burning brightly in the Lord's house, and let His spirit always 
abide in your hearts, and lead you steadily onward and upward 
towards His home. 




Mrs. Jane Smith. 

Deaconess — i8qi— 



7 6 



THROUGH FIFTY YEARS. 



Statement of the Annual Offerings of the Church, so 


far as they are 




i8 45 . 


1846. 


1847. 


1848. 


1849. 


1850. 


1851. 


1852. 


1853. 


1854. 


1855. 


Church Benevolences: 

Foreign Missions 

Christian Education... 


$ 260 


$ 88 


$ 44 


$ 66 


$ 72 


$ 105 


$ 144 


$ 131 


$ 89 


$ 68 


$ 102 


Am Miss'ry Ass'n 






15 

55 
52 


20 


20 


5i 
40 


49 


25 


45 

74 

145 


68 
59 


26 


Am Bible Society 








Am. Seaman F. Society 
Am. & For. Chr'n Union 






24 




















38 
17 






Am S School Union. . . 










10 


3o 


30 


54 






New West Commission... 














Cong'l H. M Society.... 






46 






42 




92 


55 




134 


Cong'l S. S. & P. Society. 
Church Building 


























183 






Chicago Theol. Sem'y.... 






















Olivet College 
























Detroit Cong'l Union and 
City Evangelization... . 












17 
44 


11 

63 


78 
92 


100 

86 


180 

73 




Church Relief Fund 












93 


By Sabbath School 












Miscellaneous Purposes. . 








11 






25 


74 


38 




73 














Total by Church 


260 


88 


212 


121 


102 


329 


322 


547 


869 


448 


428 


By Society: 

Current Expenses 

Building and Repairs. . 


54 
2 ,5ii 


380 
1,679 


732 


984 
50 


100 


i,554 


1,386 
1,810 






12,180 


6,828 






Total by Society 

Church and Society 


2,565 
2,825 


2,059 
2,147 


732 
944 


1,034 
1,155 


1,661 
1,763 


3 193 
3522 


3,196 

3,5i8 


i,95i 
2,498 


1,825 
2,694 


14,005 

14,453 


10,676 
11,104 



HISTORICAL ADDRESS. 



77 



known, and the Receipts of the Society for the years 1845- 1869. 



1856. 


1857- 


1858. 


1859. 


i860. 


1861. 


1862. 


1863. 


1864. 


1865. 


1866. 


1867. 


1868. 


1869. 


Total 
1845-1869 


$ 149 


$ 173 


$ 128 


% 204 


$ 500 


$ 197 


$ 204 


$ 153 


$ 479 


$i,372 


$T,OIO 

75 
1,326 


$ 95i 
143 
277 


$ 828 
162 

354 

77 


$562 

92 

184 

73 


$ 8,079 

472 

2,604 

617 
221 


38 


3i 


25 


25 
no 


25 














48 






81 


































35 
25 






35 
50 


75 


I08 




54 
















65 


7o 


480 


















163 


150 


78 


48 


34 


144 


125 


139 


64 


941 


i,397 


585 


281 


474 


4,992 


145 


27 




36 




23 








409 

156 
500 


281 


i,555 


222 


355 


3,236 

156 

10,170 

761 
1,702 

1,415 
1,065 


























5,ioo 


4,57o 

170 

65 

170 






135 
116 


















70 

85 

316 
70 


144 
250 
131 


113 


98 


94 


79 


69 


5i 


68 


73 


109 
193 
344 


87 
486 

78 


74 


18 


83 


40 




6 














820 


566 


412 


557 


638 


439 


428 


360 


616 


4,165 


9.905 


8556 


2550 


2,340 


36,078 


3.691 






25,000 




i, 000 


3,086 
1,250 


13,750 


4,000 




3.748 


5,014 


6,371 


4,748 
4,910 


73 097 
72,622 


















3,691 
45II 


4,390 




29,630 


3.486 


4,194 


4:336 


16,941 


4,000 


4,287 


3,748 


5,014 


6,37i 


9.658 


145,719 
181,797 



t Estimated for debt. 



73 



THROUGH FIFTY YEARS. 



Statement of the Annual Offerings of the Church, and the Receipts of 



« 


1870. 


1871. 


1872. 


1873- 


1874. 


1875. 


1876. 


1877. 


1878. 


1879. 


1880. 


1881. 


Church Benevolences: 

Foreign Missions 

Christian Education.. . . 


$ 602 

148 
179 


$ 583 
180 


$1,402 

62 

24c 


$ 865 

5i 

127 


$1,136 
206 


$ 868 

191 

392 

33 

45 


$ 690 
94 

55i 
70 

45 


$ 508 

58 

34i 

26 

28 


$ 422 

4i 

380 

19 

27 


$1,484 


$ 963 


$ 276 


Am. Miss'ry Ass'n 

Am. Bible Society 


214 


249 


197 


Am. & West'nS. F. Soc. 


















Am. & For. Ch'n Union 


43 
150 
















Am. S. S. Union 




80 


30 


30 
















New West Commission. . 
















Cong'l H. M. Soc'y 

Cong'l S. S. & P. Soc 


215 


373 


1,460 


1,208 


736 


769 


528 


418 


382 


592 


289 


413 


Church Building 

Ministerial Aid 


44 


425 




250 


528 


279 


45o 


195 


200 




660 


655 


Chicago Theol. Sem'y. . . . 

Olivet College 

Detroit Cong'l Union and 
City Evangelization. . . 


1,070 
8, 600 














54 
10 

66 
165 

478 

53i 
536 
300 










5,845 


i,934 


2,425 


6,454 




225 

234 

175 
128 

489 
104 
330 










201 

128 
169 

53i 
*i,368 

359 


198 

173 
213 

276 
575 
295 


437 

180 

52 

38i 
336 
332 


948 
319 


Church Relief Fund 

Contingent Fund 


112 


74 


7i 


75 
50 

470 
932 
249 


311 

55 

53i 

987 
297 


135 
360 

641 
506 
34i 


By Sabbath School 

" Ladies' Union 


325 


245 


467 


603 

1.655 

346 


" Women's B'd F. Miss. 
" Women's Ass'n 


70 


in 


133 


" Y. P. S. C. E 

" Sunbeam Band 










52 
45 


172 
161 
117 


128 
150 
125 


50 
133 
127 


65 
138 
125 


113 
100 

175 


64 
153 
175 


7i 
105 
203 


" Young Ladies' Circle. 
" Junior Endeavor Soc. 


















' ' Ivy Leaves 


























Special Offerings: 

For Ft. Wayne Chapel. 




















fl,22I 


57o 


24 
i,372 


" Plymo'th Cong'l Ch 
" Canfield Av. Miss'n 










































" Mt.Hope Cong'l Ch 
" Brewster Cong'l Ch 
" Miscellaneous Pur- 
poses 


















































106 


649 




3,900 


55 


60 




20 


4i 


40 




288 






Total by Church 


r 1,664 


8.485 


5.849 


10,632 


11,423 


5,o7o 


4.5i6 


4.044 


4.596 


5,669 


4.841 


7,676 


By Society: 

Current Expenses 

Buildings and Repairs. 


6,610 
10,384 


5 507 


5,743 


5,697 


6,246 

4 725 


6,445 
2,824 


6,297 
162 


6,066 
5,052 


6,132 


5,812 


6,047 
393 


5,348 














Total by Society 

Church and Society 


16,994 

28,658 


5,507 
13,992 


5,743 
n,592 


5,697 
16,329 


10,971 
22,394 


9,269 
14,339 


6,459 
io,975 


11,118 
15,162 


6,132 

10,728 


5,812 
II,48l 


6,440 
11,281 


5,348 
13,024 



* $1,000 for debt. t Total amount raised was $1,996, 



HISTORICAL ADDRESS. 



79 



the Society for the Years 1870- 1894, with the Totals for the Half-Century. 



1882. 


1883. 


1884. 


1885. 


1886. 


1887. 


1888. 


1889. 


1890. 


1891. 


1892. 


1893. 


1894. 


Total 

1870-1894 


Total 

1845-1894 


$ 284 
213 


$ 208 

178 
45 


$ 360 
" " 64 


$ 421 

20 

140 


$ 592 
114 

254 
100 


$ 497 

50 

356 


$ 507 
100 
127 


$ 465 
200 


$ 285 
131 


$ 37i 
159 
249 


$ 704 
5i 

276 


$ 454 
447 

283 


$ 557 
116 
231 


$15,504 
2,OII 

5,694 
248 

145 

43 

290 

76i 
18,221 

695 
7,024 

1.089 

5,643 
46,222 

i8,6oi 

7,559 
3,i3o 

10,322 

12,687 

7,999 

2,311 

2,046 

2,385 

3,264 

70 

168 

4,023 
2,147 
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237 


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154 


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5,4i8 


5.076 


6,723 


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6.504 


17,424 


26,140 


5,565 


5,34i 


6,744 


13,966 


7,924 


203,854 


239.932 


5,6i7 
2,139 


5,717 


5,754 


5,803 
2,063 


6,018 


6,153 


6,360 


5.743 
10,606 


5,671 
10,695 


7,059 
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11,047 
25,112 


10,976 
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11,269 

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114,214 


238,234 
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5,717 
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5,754 
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6,018 
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6,153 
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6,360 

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i6,349 
42,489 


16,366 
21,931 


33,050 
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18,106 
32,072 


18,207 
26,131 


279,351 
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425,070 
665,002 




Rev. William H. Davis, D. D. 

1884— 



SERMON BY THR PASTOR. 

REV. WILLIAM H. DAVIS, D. D. 

I GIVE you welcome, beloved, to the jubilee services of this church. 
It is with thanksgiving to God that I greet in your name our 
honored and beloved pastors, Dr. Kitchel and Dr. Ballard, whose 
work and memory are shrined in the hearts of this congregation. And 
we speak words of glad welcome to our honored friends, Deacon and 
Mrs. Raymond and Mrs. Cook, the only surviving members of that 
historic company of thirteen who fifty years ago covenanted together 
in the old city hall of Detroit to organize this Christian church. Our 
text on this golden anniversary in our history is in Leviticus, chapter 
xvv, nth verse: 

"A jubilee shall that fiftieth year be unto you!' 

The jubilee, as you know, was the great year in the calendar of 
the Hebrew people. Each seventh year the fields lay fallow, and the 
inhabitants and cattle of the land rested — making it a Sabbath of 
worship and of recuperation. But the fiftieth year was the anniver- 
sary of the Sabbath of the years — seven multiplied by seven — a year 
of revolution in the political, the social and the industrial life of the 
tribes of Israel, for then all lands alienated or sold reverted once more 
to their original ownership. All slaves and servants were given free- 
dom from their bondage; all debtors and debts were released and 
canceled ; the vineyards and the beasts of burden all rested in the 
great half-century year of the Hebrew people, the year of thanksgiving 
and of joy, of universal liberty, and family reunions, of rest, and the 
remembrance of the mercies of Jehovah. 

Such a year, beloved, has come in the providence of God to this 
historic church; a year of jubilee, a year of joy, when we lift our 
banners of praise, of memory and of prayer over the tender recol- 
lections of the sainted lives and labors which have been builded as 
" living stones" into this communion of the saints. In the words of 

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84 THROUGH FIFTY YEARS. 

Dr. Hurd's hymn: " Let the trumpet blow! Our jubilee has come! 
Let all the people know what great things God has done" for us and 
ours in the fellowship of this church. 

The half-century which has spanned our organized church life has 
been the ripest and the richest in the years of the world's history. 
Decades ago the poet-laureate of England said : " Better fifty years of 
Europe than a cycle of Cathay." So we of this later time can lift the 
last half-century of American life into the crown-place of the ages; for 
in these fifty years our great national growths have come — in 
mechanical skill, wherein it seems as though we had rubbed some 
Aladdin's lamp of magic; in the marvels of invention and engineering; 
in our agricultural development; in the means of communication by 
steam and electricity; in the discovery and use of our vast mineral 
wealth; in our political life, our educational systems, our strides in 
trade and production. The half-century gone is the golden age of our 
material civilization. In these years great questions have been settled 
— of the emancipation of man, the extension of the franchise, the unity 
and political integrity of our national life, — and yet in these same years 
some of our vastest and vitalest problems in self-government in the 
social, civil and industrial world have presented themselves with an 
imperious demand for solution that has shocked our easy-going faith in 
" manifest destiny" — until no previous century has been so pregnant 
with great issues and so grand in its splendid achievements as that 
which has gone over the life of this church. The supreme latitude 
and longitude of human life is now seen to be in the last half of the 
nineteenth century. 

Equally significant are these years in our ecclesiastical history as 
a denomination. We have come, I think, to our self-consciousness as 
a church of God in these later years, not only in the formation of 
Congregational and Scrooby Clubs, and in the growing observance of 
Forefathers' Day, but in our widening literature, in the development 
of our Sunday school work, in the larger sense of mission which 
increasingly inspires our national councils, and in those deeper recog- 
nitions of a Divine Providence in the making of the Puritan, which 
runs far back of the Pilgrim Fathers and Plymouth Rock. 

We have come also to a larger liberty in the interpretation of our 
historic symbols — a use of liturgy in our church service, which has 
enriched our worship with responsive Psalms and choral music and 
concerted prayers. There is a spirit of wider co-operation in Christian 



SERMON BY THE PASTOR. 8$ 

service and work. We have felt the contagion of modern enterprise. 
We have grander views of the Kingdom of God as something larger 
than this church or than any church. For no other church has 
caught the spirit of the times with greater fullness than this Pilgrim 
" scheme of church order" which we represent. Conservative in 
questions of doctrine, loyal to the great history of God's kingdom and 
the essential inspiration of His word, and yet radical in our methods, 
fitting nineteenth century calls with nineteenth century courage, and 
doing the work of God by the manifest methods of His providence. 
As we stand together on the crest of the years, I know we share one 
supreme thought, and that is, the sense of gratitude for the life and 
labors of the Christian church. There is no organization so potential 
for righteousness and for service as the church of God. Its ministra- 
tion is perennial, like the growths of the forest — an oak falls here and 
there, but the forest lives on forever. So the church of the living 
God : Its membership is recruited from year to year, and while, as 
ripened grain, many are gathered each twelvemonth into that great 
witnessing company of the " first-born," its faith deepens, its oppor- 
tunities broaden, as into it are builded the prayers, the lives and 
labors of that unseen throng who, though dead, yet speak, and whose 
memories give marching music to our pilgrim feet. 

So we bless God for the Christian church ; for this church whose 
faith and power have been augmented for fifty years, until we face 
the twentieth century with the momentum and joy of a great Past. 

Let me now speak briefly of some characteristics of this particular 
church as it has been my privilege to observe it through the decade of 
my ministry among you. 

First, and foremost, is its esprit de corps, that common spirit 
which time and association cradle in the organizations of men and 
women. This esprit de corps was generated in the very beginning of 
its history in the struggles and poverty of its early days, and has 
deepened as the years of our prosperity have come, until the members 
of this church have a sentiment of loyalty to it akin to that of the 
Hebrew people for the Temple at Jerusalem, saying with the captives 
of Babylon: "If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget 
her cunning, ... if I prefer not Jerusalem above my chief joy." 

The church has been more than the individual opinion, more than 
the individual convenience. In all the interregnums of its pastorates, 
in the removals of its location, in the differences of judgment which 



86 THROUGH FIFTY YEARS. 

these questions have developed, this church has always held together 
as by the bonds of a divine love and in the unity of the divine spirit. 
In our last removal to this place, you remember the difficulties that 
needed to be overcome. You recall the tender associations that 
clustered about the old building. You know the long history that 
centered itself in the Old First Church at the corner of Fort and 
Wayne streets. We could not give it up without a heartache, and yet 
God's spirit in our souls made it possible to come away with but the 
loss of three families from the membership of this church, so loyal 
was its rank and file to the largest good of the greatest number. 
Therefore the remarkable harmony of its life. 

Last night mention was made of the successful work of the 
pastors of this church, and of the high order of their personal service 
and character. Let me say to you that this church has made its 
ministers. If they have been worth anything to you, you have made 
their worth possible by your responsive fidelity. I believe that the 
church does make its ministers more than the minister the church. 
There are possible exceptions. We remember Mr. Beecher at 
Plymouth, and Mr. Spurgeon at the Tabernacle. But I believe that 
Plymouth Church did as much for Henry Ward Beecher as he for it ; 
and that the Tabernacle did as much for its notable pastor as he was 
ever able to render it in return ; and in the rank and file of our church 
life the world over the church makes or unmakes its ministry more 
largely than we think. They carry out his ideals — and it is harder to 
practice than it is to preach. They bear with his weaknesses and 
supplement his shortcomings. They correct his heresies as Aquilla 
and Priscilla corrected the mistakes of Apollos at Corinth. They 
buttress him with love and cheer; so that if the ministers of this 
church have been successful in their pastorates among you, the secret 
of this success is in the work of your own hands and in the loyalty of 
your own hearts. 

And here has been generated that Congregational principle of 
personal responsibility which has always dominated this communion 
and been the hiding of its power. 

Another characteristic is its missionary spirit. For fifty years 
there has been no break in the foreign missionary column of its gifts. 
On its initial year $268 were given for the conversion of the world, 
thus yoking itself at the start with the world-plan of its Redeemer, 
until now it is privileged to have personal representatives in the great 
foreign field of Christian missions. 



SERMON BY THE PASTOR. 87 

I received a letter last night from an old and esteemed member of 
this church, who said she remembered the winter of '51 and her 
attendance upon the missionary concerts of prayer in the First 
Congregational Church, the only missionary concert of prayer in this 
city. She referred to your leadership in these praying circles for the 
world's redemption, Dr. Kitchel, and I rejoice to say that from that 
day to this that honored institution has been perpetuated in the 
fellowship of this church. While in the home work, steady-going 
benevolence to our national societies and local causes has been the 
rule of our life, until over a quarter of a million of dollars have been 
put into Christian colleges and seminaries of learning, city evangel- 
ization, foreign and home missions — a record which makes the 
"Old First" Church the largest giver of our denomination in the 
State ; and not only by proxy through its gifts, but through personal 
service in city mission work, whereby five churches, wholly or in part, 
have grown out of her loins. 

While her members have been identified to an unusual degree 
with Christian enterprises in the City and State, as in our national 
organizations, allow me to note briefly the wide range of her influence 
in fields outside the activities of our home work. Through her 
representatives, she has vital alliance with the corporation of the 
American Board and the Executive Committee of the American 
Missionary Association, with nearly all the charitable organizations of 
Detroit, the County and State Sunday school work, the Bible Society, 
and the State Executive Committee of Home Missions. While we 
have in our membership the president of our Congregational Union 
and its secretary and treasurer, the president of our Christian 
Endeavor Union of Michigan, the president and secretary of the 
Congregational Club of Eastern Michigan, the president of the 
Woman's Home Missionary Union of the State, and the vice-president 
of both the Home and Foreign Missionary auxiliaries, the president of 
the Y. M. C. A. in our city, the superintendents of both our Juvenile 
Y. P. S. C. E. work and our Junior Foreign Mission work in Michigan, 
the president and secretary of our State Board of Trustees, as well as 
the registrar and treasurer of our Michigan Congregational Associa- 
tion. A goodly record of leadership of which this church may justly 
be proud. And just here, beloved, we touch the secret of the influence 
of this church, her willing spirit of co-operation in all Christian work, 



88 THROUGH FIFTY YEARS. 

her readiness to give both of her membership in the up-building of 
new churches and of her money in Christian benevolence, for the 
church that gives is the church that lives. 

Another characteristic of our church life is its open-hearted 
hospitality. There is a marked difference in the atmosphere of 
different churches, for churches, as people, have individuality. Some 
are cold; some are hearty; some are indifferent and aristocratic; 
some are popular. These are the outward characteristics whereby the 
stranger and the community gather their impressions of spiritual life. 
Tested by its history, this church has always evidenced a generous 
and Christian hospitality in its fellowship and social life. Some of 
you will remember those old-fashioned inns of New England, where 
the landlord stood at the door heartily greeting the coming and 
speeding the parting guest. So, in the spirit of "mine host" of the 
olden time, has the mood of Christian hospitality rested upon the 
membership of this church. True, you will find men and women 
among us who criticise the temperature of this church, and who 
complain about the difficulty of mutual acquaintance. But these 
people forget that they who would have friends must show them- 
selves friendly, and that our church fellowships are covenants between 
two for mutual watch and care, and only as this sentiment of brother- 
hood obtains in us, shall we feel "at home" in the Lord's house. This 
sense of hospitality has been cultivated largely by the cordial and 
courteous reception with which our ushers meet and seat our congre- 
gation as they gather from Sunday to Sunday — a department of our 
church life which has always been unusually well-manned and efficient. 
This spirit of hospitality is due also to the Christian women of this 
church, who, in unusual number and of unusual gifts in character and 
leadership, have presided in the years past, and preside to-day, over 
the social life of this church. I venture to say that this company of 
Christian women is unmatched in quality and quantity by any church 
in the West ; and to their efficiency as workers in social and mission- 
ary ways is due very largely the hospitable spirit of this communion. 
And, finally, this spirit comes from the large sense of Christian 
brotherhood which has filled our hearts because of the love of Jesus 
Christ. Special mention should be made of the loyalty and service 
of the young people of this church, in the Sunday school, in their 
own organizations, and in their church fellowship ; for they have 



SERMON BY THE PASTOR. 89 

contributed very materially to this generous spirit of welcome as new 
friends from time to time have come among us. 

Another characteristic, and the last but one to which I shall refer, 
is the quality and character of those who have been its office bearers 
in these past fifty years, for they have contributed more largely than 
you or I know to the prosperity of this church of God. Its deacons 
have been choice, level-headed, warm-hearted Christian men. The 
starred names of Baldwin and Barnard and Hinsdale are honored now, 
but future historians will linger as lovingly over the names of Walker 
and Raymond, of Baker and Lane and Jones, not to mention the later 
and younger members of the diaconate of this church ; for they have 
borne this church upon their hearts as tenderly as fathers look into 
the eyes of their children. They have ministered to its poor, visited 
its sick, and with unusual solicitude and patience have kept watch and 
ward over its spiritual fortunes in all its history. We love them each 
and all. 

Its trustees also have been representative business men in the 
affairs of the city and the State, and to their foresight and prudence 
the material and the temporal welfare of this church is largely 
beholden, especially in the arduous labor and the exacting responsi- 
bilities of the last five years of our corporate life, in which we have 
removed from the old location to the new, have completed the church 
edifice, which is our joy and pride in the Lord, complete with every 
equipment for modern church work and missionary service. To this 
honored board of Christian business men we owe a debt which can 
only be paid with love, for they have builded into these church walls 
and cancelled church debts their time and thought and strength ; and, 
while our obligations are great to all, it will not seem invidious to 
mention with special gratitude and love the name of Mr. George R. 
Angell, the honored chairman of this board, for to his wisdom and 
cheerful courage is due, more than to any one man, the material 
prosperity of this glad hour in our history. 

While to our past and present superintendents in the Sunday 
school, with its faithful corps of teachers, to the annual committees 
raised for special and varied Christian work, to our singers who have 
sung " the songs of the faith" in this communion for the half-century 
gone, and especially to the present choir and chorus who with their 
director reinforce so heartily the pastor of this church in its splendid 
musical service, and to the sextons of the "Old First," especially to 



90 THROUGH FIFTY YEARS. 

him who now presides with such prompt and kindly fidelity over the 
temporal affairs of our church home, are due our hearty and abiding 
thanks. For the pastors of this church would have been, like the 
conies of the rock, a feeble folk, had it not been for the sturdy, 
upholding hands of this personal staff of office bearers and tireless 
workers in this church. 

Finally, the Old First Church has exemplified in her history the 
great twin principles of Puritan polity, liberty of conscience and 
brotherhood of life, to a remarkable degree. And I believe that these 
are to be the great watchwords of the coming church, whose doors 
and mind will be open to all new truth and new methods in the 
kingdom of God, and whose pews will be filled with the rich and poor 
alike. Freedom in religious discussion, in matters of conscience, a 
faith which trusts God, and His people, in the administration of its 
affairs ; a sense of brotherhood with all Christian churches and Christian 
workers — these have been our characteristics in the years gone by. 
And may they continue to be so in the days to come. While we 
glory in our past and present growths, our benevolent spirit, our 
missionary zeal, our magnificent church home, and in the enthusiasm 
and moral force of our great congregation, let us remember that, 
unlike the jubilee of the Hebrew calendar, which released the Jew 
from his obligations, our jubilee commits us in abiding bonds of 
memory and power to a larger service and a stancher discipleship. 

Therefore, beloved, believing in religious liberty, in the Holy 
Catholic Church, in the inspired Word of God, in the divinity of His 
Son, Jesus Christ, in the presence and communion of the Holy Spirit, 
and in the life everlasting, we face the second half-century of our 
church life "as they who wait for the morning," and in the name of our 
God we will set up our banners. And although many of us will have 
fallen asleep before this rounded century shall be full, may we all rest 
from our labors in our Father's house, where "he that doeth the will 
of God abideth forever." Amen. 




Rev. Addison Ballard, D. D. 

1866-1872. 



THE SUNDAY SCHOOL AND COMMUNION 
SERVICES. 



AT its regular noon hour of service, Sunday, December 9th, the 
l Sunday School assembled in the main audience room of the 
church and participated in services of a reminiscential character. 
After the usual opening services of a devotional nature, conducted 
by Superintendents R. W. King and John Davis, the pastor, Rev. Dr. 
Davis, gave a personal welcome to each one of the surviving superin- 
tendents, who were seated upon the platform. Superintendent George 
M. Lane then gave a brief address upon the history and development 
of the school. He was followed by Superintendent H. E. Baker, who 
contrasted the limited privileges and facilities enjoyed in the former 
days as compared with the abundant means supplied for the benefit 
and advantage of the school of the present day in every department. 
Rev. Dr. Ballard dwelt upon the responsibilities that spring from such 
liberality and enlarged opportunity, and urged teachers to greater 
fidelity and scholars to a more faithful use of their opportunities. 
Superintendent Allan Bourn brought his hearty congratulations to the 
school for its present prosperity and his hope that its morrow might 
be as to-day, and yet more full of all good. Superintendent Strong 
closed the services of the hour with an exhortation to serious diligence 
and a determination on the part of the school that its future should be 
worthy of its past, as the best testimony that grateful hearts could 
render for all the numberless blessings that the school had been per- 
mitted to enjoy. 

At 3:30 in the afternoon the church reassembled with very full 
attendance to the celebration of the communion service. Rev. Drs. 
Ballard and Kitchel presided at the table, the former officiating at the 
distribution of the bread, and the latter at that of the cup. The entire 
exercises were full of deep and solemn interest, the presence of the 
three surviving charter members and of all the living pastors rendering 
it an occasion, the like of which it could not be expected it would be 
the privilege of those participating ever to enjoy again. 

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COMMUNION ADDRESS. 

REV. ADDISON BALLARD, D. D. 

I LOVE you, my disciples. " " Master, we love you. " That was 
the significance of the last supper in part; the love of the Master 
for his dear disciples and their love for Him. I remember once when 
I was the pastor of this church, as we went out after a communion 
occasion, one who was near to many of you, and nearer to me, pressed 
my arm and said with great animation : " I love this church, and I 
love every member of it." That was the love of the disciples, one for 
another. 

If the Master were here to-day, He would say the same, " I love 
you;" and our hearts would respond, "Yes, Master, and we love 
Thee;" and the feeling runs from heart to heart, "Yes, and we love one 
another." Now that is the real significance of living. The disciples 
came in from the noisy streets of Jerusalem as Christians gather in 
their assemblies from the noisy streets of cities and towns in their 
quiet chambers or quiet churches, and all the puzzling questions of life 
are left behind ; and the real solution of all the entanglements and 
perplexities and anxieties of life is found right here. 

What is the meaning of this world we live in? It means that 
love is worth living for ; and that is the only vital significance of this 
world. It would be all a puzzle if it were not for this. And so this 
world means that love is worth living for, and well worth it. 

Now, what is the meaning of heaven ? Heaven simply means that 

love is worth dying for. Jesus said to His disciples, in effect, " I love 

you, and I love you so much that I am willing to do anything for 

you." That is the language of real love, — "Anything that I can do 

for you, I will be glad to do." " Greater love hath no man than this, 

that a man lay down his life for his friends," and that was just what 

Jesus was ready and willing to do, and told them that He was going to 

do; that it was what He came into the world for, that by the shedding 

of His blood all their sins might be washed away; that they might be 

restored to the family of God by adoption, and that this was what He 

was going forward to do. 

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COMMUNION ADDRESS. 95 

Now but for that there would have been no element of sadness in 
the last supper. There they were, a company of loving hearts, but 
there was before the Master the shadow of Gethsemane and the 
shadow of Calvary, and He spoke to them of His coming sufferings 
and of His being separated from them. But we who are here to-day 
do not have that element of sadness, for Jesus has done with all of 
that long ago. He went from Gethsemane and hung on Calvary and 
went down into the sepulchre, and He rose again on the morning of 
the third day and ascended into the heavens, where He ever lives and 
reigns over His people to guide them to Himself. We do not have 
that element of sadness, to think of what our dear Lord must suffer. 
His sufferings are over ; He died once for all. 

There was one element of sadness remaining, the element of 
separation. He told them it was better for them that He should go 
away. He emphasized for them, and He emphasizes for us, the dif- 
ference there is between absence and desertion. Because He left them 
it was no sign that He had deserted them. He remembered them, as 
we see from the great and good gifts which He sent back to them, and 
that most precious of all gifts, the gift of His Holy Spirit. So it is 
with us to-day. He sends us this most precious gift, His divine spirit. 

How often have I wished that He would come, if only for a little 
while, and say to me, " You are my child, do not fear." Sometimes 
that becomes an irrepressible desire, and we almost feel that we 
cannot be denied. 

My dear friends, let me say to you that while faith is not so good 
as sight, while it is not so good to believe in the word of Jesus as it 
would be to see and to hear Him, it is nevertheless just as certain. 
Suppose a father tells his daughter, " Next Christmas I am going to 
give you a pearl necklace." It is not so good to have the promise as 
to have the necklace, but it is just as sure and will be just as good 
when it comes. 

This separation, one from another by death, those dearest 
friends of ours who have gone, brings heart-breaking grief that is 
almost more bitter than we can bear, and it seems that we must see 
that husband, that wife, father, brother, that child, son, daughter, 
sister; that if we could only see them once more, and once more feel 
the touch of that hand, — perhaps you have really sometimes fancied 
that you felt the hand, and your prayer has been, "Let me feel the 
touch of that vanished hand, let me hear the tones of that stilled voice 



g6 THROUGH FIFTY YEARS. 

once more, and I will wait patiently on until that last meeting comes." 
Now it is not so good to live without that as it would be to have it, 
but it is just as certain that the time is coming when we shall clasp 
hands again, when we shall exchange words of loving salutation, 
because we have the word of Jesus that it shall be so. 

And we are delayed here for a while because the work of separa- 
tion is not complete. That same dear friend of )^ours and of mine 
used to say, " I love you so that I shall not be satisfied until you are 
perfect." That is what love will ask. And the more we love the 
more we shall desire to see our loved ones perfect. That is what 
Christ wishes for us, and, as He is a faithful Savior, He will not be 
satisfied until He sees the image of God fully restored in your heart 
and mine. " He shall see of the travail of his soul and shall be 
satisfied." And His satisfaction is increased from week to week just 
in proportion as He sees love being enthroned in your hearts more 
and more and transforming your lives, your family lives, your neigh- 
borhood lives, selfishness being put in the background and love 
enthroned. When love is completely enthroned, Jesus will be 
satisfied. It is only then that you yourselves will be satisfied. " I 
shall be satisfied when I awake in Thy likeness." 

It is said of John that when he was old and feeble he was carried 
into the church of Ephesus, and they gave him a seat there before the 
congregation; as the dear pastors now once in a while can only come 
to sit before you, and with their hearts full of the same divine love 
they would say to you what John said, " Little children, love one 
another." That is the message to-day of Jesus, preserving the " unity 
of the spirit in the bond of peace." 

And then, it is so soon that we shall join that general assembly, 
that church of the first-born. I said once. " Were she on the other 
side of the globe, I would take the next steamer"; and a friend said 
to me, "Perhaps you will take the next steamer to go to her: we 
know not how soon we shall be called to joy of reunion, what day will 
complete our happiness." 

Reunion: That word is almost a mockery in this world. How 
many reunions are there in the literal sense of the word ? Suppose at 
Thanksgiving time you leave vacant chairs at the table for all the 
loved ones who have left you. One chair after another. It is not a 
reunion. There will never be a reunion of those here to-day. Very 
seldom is there, can there be a reunion in the literal sense of the 



COMMUNION ADDRESS. 97 

word. But there will be a reunion there. We know that our Savior 
is here to-day by His Spirit, and I do not know that it is too much to 
believe that those dear friends of ours may be hovering near us. As I 
looked at those winged figures on the ceiling, I thought it would not 
seem so very strange if those wings should begin to move, if they 
were real personages from the other world, come to whisper sweet 
messages from our dear ones there. And I remember these lines 
written by that same friend of ours when there was to be a reunion of 
kindred from all parts of the land : 

"Let us listen in silence, as hovering near 
Are those we would honor by gathering here, 
Who rejoice in affection that holds them still dear 
And which royally triumphs o'er time and o'er fear, 
As they call to reunion in that blessed sphere 
Where love is eternal and life is all clear ; 
Where the children, all safe in the home of one mother* 
In that land of the ransomed shall greet one another." 



*Gal. iv: 2 6. 




COMMUNION ADDRESS. 

REV. HARVEY D. KITCHEL, D. D. 

1 WOULD be glad to give you, dear friends, the secret of the great 
pleasure it is to me to come before you to-day. I am not here as 
a minister; I do not stand before you simply as ministerial. I am a 
member of this church. I wonder if that is as really felt here as it is 
in my heart. When we left our home in Vermont, having no longer 
any church home in the East, it was a great pleasure to come back 
again to the old home that had been so dear to us long before. I wish 
that it might be remembered that my wife and I are members of this 
old First Congregational Church. 

What a time of memory this is ! Everything is full of memory. 
We do this to-day in remembrance of the Master. First and foremost 
of our remembrances to-day is that of Jesus our Lord, our Master 
divine. I wish to add to this thought, that we remember Him not as 
a dear friend who long ages ago died for us, purchased forgiveness of 
sin and ransom from its stains and then left us to be with us no more. 
Because He is no more seen by us, it comes into our hearts too much 
that He is gone from us. Let us remember, dear friends, that He is 
with us, that He is a living and ever-present Saviour. " I am He that 
liveth and was dead ; and behold, I am alive forevermore." He is a 
Saviour on our right hand and on our left to help us in every time of 
need. That is the preciousness of the dear Christ who is leading us, 
ever present to help us, clasping us to His very heart. 

As we come to the table of the Lord to-day, let it be to us as it 
was to those who sat in that upper room at Jerusalem as He took the 
bread and brake it and gave to His disciples. Let it be to us a reality 
as if He to-day handed us the cup of His blood and the emblem of 
His broken body, and forevermore carry this thought with us in the 
trials and needs of life that He is a living and present Saviour. 

It is in just that way we would remember to-day the dear ones of 
these fifty years who have dropped out by the way, whose names, 
carried so long on our books, have been removed now to the Book of 
Life above. Let us remember them in something of the same manner. 

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COMMUNION ADDRESS. 99 

They are not separated from us; the fellowship established here is a 
continued, ever-enduring fellowship. Nothing shall break that fellow- 
ship between us and our departed ones. I do not wish to awaken sad 
emotions. We shed our tears years ago and I want not to harrow our 
souls by renewing the pangs of their departure. They are in the 
mansions prepared for them, let us rejoice. 

I know not the limitations nor the liberties of those dear ones of 
this church who are just beyond the veil, but I cannot believe that 
they are shut away from the knowledge of us and the fellowship with 
us. Our eyes are holden and we shall see them no more upon the 
earth, but nothing can sunder the ties that bind us, the ties that are 
riveted upon our souls and theirs until our night shall be ended and the 
morning come, when those angel forms that we so " loved long since 
and lost awhile " will be revealed to us in the beauty and the glory of 
the Life eternal, and we shall enjoy their sweet fellowship in that land 
whose loveliness shall never fade and where partings all shall cease. 





Rev. Zachary Eddy, D. D. 

1873-1884. 



MEMORIAL ADDRESS. 

DEACON HENRY E. BAKER. 

A GOODLY ship leaves a home port for a foreign shore. Upon 
her decks stand our friends from whom we part. As she swings 
away from her moorings we wave them our last farewells, and they 
fling back to us their parting salutations. While slowly moving down 
the harbor we watch the retreating forms as they grow smaller and 
dimmer in outline, until at last, out upon the ocean wide, our ship and 
the treasures that she carries are wholly lost to view. She has gone 
to a far-away land of which we have heard wonderful things and which, 
one day, we hope to see, and there to rejoin the loved ones from whom 
we have just separated. They have gone on in advance of us — we 
shall follow in due time. The parting is but temporary, but we turn 
back to our homes to find an emptiness there that it takes many a long 
day to remove, and we carry about in our hearts a dull, aching sense 
of loss that we only bear with any approach to comfort because of the 
good angel of hope that ever attends us to lighten the load, bidding 
us to be patient and of good cheer, for some day we too shall speed 
out and away, and then they shall be ours again. 

Such is the brief transcript of a very frequent and familiar experi- 
ence of the daily life of which we make up a part. It is forcibly 
brought to mind as to-night this dear old church recalls the names of 
those who have passed out of its communion in the last twenty-five 
years, and gone on into that undiscovered Country from whose shores 
comes neither voice nor sign of those who went away from us and dis- 
appeared in its solemn silence, to tell us how it fares with them there, and 
what is the manner of the people of the land, and what the gracious- 
ness of Him who is the King and Lord thereof. One by one they 
slipped away, and with tear-filled eyes and longing hearts we followed 
them until they vanished wholly from our sight, and we turned back 
with an ever-present sense of lonesomeness haunting our steps, to 
comfort ourselves as well as we could with many a sweet memory of 
loving word and kindly deed, and to wait until unto us shall come the 
beckoning sign, and fall upon our ears the word that none can put 
aside, " The Master has come and calleth for thee." 

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104 



THROUGH FIFTY YEARS. 



But as we ponder over these mysteries that defy all our efforts to 
penetrate, we are thankful that there has been vouchsafed to us a sure 
word of prophecy and revelation which, in parable and vision, gives 

us many a suggestion as to things 
unseen of mortal sight, which kindle 
great hopes within our hearts, and 
bestow upon us a wondrous calm- 
ness and peace as we think of what 
has come to our friends in the land 
of perpetual youth. There they 
^hunger no more, neither thirst any 
more, and there is no suffering 
because there is no weariness nor 
pain. Moreover, there is no sorrow 
nor crying, because there is neither 
sin nor death. 

And so we drop into wondering 
what has befallen them since they 
went away ; what changes have 
come to them ; whether they ever 
come back in memory or desire to 
this dear old world to which we so 
tenaciously cling ; and whether 
they ever desire to see us as we yearn to meet them once more 
and to be filled with their company. What is the fashion of the 
new body that is given them, and shall we know them in it? Is 
there bestowed on them a heavenly stature as there was an earthly, 
and increase in it there as was the case here? As they never wax old 
and know not infirmity, what is the law of their growth and does it 
go on without end ? 

We think of our little ones who slipped out of our arms before 
they could discern their right hand from their left, as somehow the 
wee children that left us so long ago. But can this be true? Heaven 
is not a place of arrested growth, and they cannot be the same wholly 
unformed and unstamped natures as when they left us. Had they 
been spared to us here, they would have been bearded men and 
matronly women now. What have the same years brought to them 
there, where growth has come under infinitely more favoring circum- 
stances, unfettered by human limitations, unblighted by evil? The 




Deacon Charles Howard. 
1845-1861. 



MEMORIAL ADDRESS. 



105 



father who went away full of years, with his hoary head and his 
righteous life as his crown of glory — the mother on whose saintly face 
rested the patience and peace of God — what has come to them ? Not 
gray-haired and bent, surely, are they now ; not wrinkled and shrunken ; 
no longer feeble and leaning upon a staff. Are the currents of life 
turned back for them, like the hands upon the face of the dial, or do 
they leap forward into a newer, larger, more blessed existence than 
any that is dreamed of here? 

And what is their occupation in the new country into whose citi- 
zenship they have entered ? They cannot be living in lazy idleness 
and inglorious ease, for there could be no happiness in that. Nor is 
there any more for them the cursed ground bringing forth its thorns 
and thistles, and in the sweat of the brow compelling them to eat 
their bread. All that is forever past and gone. What divine employ- 
ment keeps them busy of thought and hand, and speeds them on many 
an errand of love and utility? Do they come back across the uncharted 
sea over which they went out ? Then it must be on secret errands of 
mercy and help, and on silent ministries of affection and care, doing 
their work so noiselessly that we hear no sound of footfall or rustle of 
pinion as they come and go. Do they note our anxious faces as we 
are busied and careful about 
many things? Can they hear 
our sighs of weariness, our groans 
of pain? Do they have knowl- 
edge of our forebodings, our 
alternating hopes and fears, as 
we vainly scan the future's hor- 
izon to guess what shall be for 
us and those we love on the 
morrow? It could hardly fail to 
fill them with solicitude to see 
and know all this, and would 
they be happy then? Perhaps 
they are sent on missions of 
good to other worlds that float 
in space, and look with curious 
and eager interest on other forms and conditions of life, until, filled 
with new wonder at the boundless power and beneficence of the 
Creator who made and sustains them all, they bow in humble 




Charles S. Cushing 

Sunday School Superintendent- 



851-1855. 



o6 



THROUGH FIFTY YEARS. 







Deacon William Warner. 
1861-1865. 



adoration and worship in His august presence and exclaim : 
" Great and marvelous are Thy works, Lord God Almighty ; just 
and true are Thy ways thou King of saints!" 

And thus we might follow 
with ceaseless speculations our 
friends who have gone out and 
away from us, as to how it fares 
with them in the new life into 
which they have entered, and 
what changes have come to 
^ them there. But it is all in 

-v ,*— *^ vain, for there comes back to us 

lHbkI \b-~^*k, neither token nor utterance from 

those who have gone, and none 
return to tell us of the wonders 
of the Land beyond the Un- 
known Sea. We only know that 
God is good and righteous and 
true. This world in which we 
dwell is a marvel of beauty, adaptation and use. Unscarred by 
evil, uncursed by sin, we could easily believe it the heaven of our 
frequent contemplation, so full of infinite and wondrous wealth 
is it. From the midst of such a wonderful creation as this, man, 
redeemed from an overshadowing, mysterious and everywhere present 
curse, goes out into another world because the same God has 
prepared "something better" for those that love Him and seek His 
favor. Of this He has assured us, and in wonderful pictures of 
entrancing beauty has set forth the glories of the place wherein can 
enter nothing that defileth, neither worketh abomination, nor maketh 
a lie — where they need no candle, neither light of the sun, and where 
no temple is, because God dwells evermore with His people, and they 
look upon His face and rejoice in His presence. 

And so we wait all the days of our appointed time, humbly 
trusting that we may be counted worthy of some place in this 
resplendent Kingdom of light and life and love, not because of any 
worthiness of ours, but because One has come and wrought out for 
us a mighty deliverance, and we thankfully own Him as Master and 
Lord, and fain would follow Him whithersoever He leads. 

And thus we comfort ourselves concerning those who have gone 
away from us. They have already seen the King in His beauty in 



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the land that is very far off. They know even as they are known, 
seeing no more as through a glass, darkly, but face to face. The 
mysteries of earth and time, of life and death, that puzzle and 
confound us here, are revealed and explained. Behind every forbidding 
providence a wise and gracious Heavenly Father stands disclosed, and 
there is given to them at last the garment of praise for the spirit of 
heaviness. They walk with the redeemed, and everlasting joy is upon 
their heads. 

Wherefore, as we call the roll of our beloved and departed ones 
to-night, we give thanks to God that we sorrow not as those who have 
no hope. Nay, rather, we rejoice that their course is finished 
here and that they are already 
entered into the joy of their 
Lord. 



Fixed in an eternal state 

They have done with all below; 

We a little longer wait, 

But how little none can know." 







Taking up the list of those 
members of this church who 
have died in its communion 
where my predecessors at the 
Quarter Centennial anniversary 
laid it down, at the close of the 
year 1869, I proceed to make 
such mention of those who have 
gone out from among us as the 
limits of time will permit, only 
regretting the inadequacy, at 
the best, of the service I can 
render them and this church. 

But two deaths occurred from our membership in the opening 

year of our second quarter-century. Dr. John M. Alden died in the 

first month and Mr. James Robertson in its last one. The 

1870 former will be pleasantly remembered for his very useful 

service in leading the singing of our weekly prayer meetings, 

in which he was specially proficient. The latter, a mechanic of Scotch 

birth and training, was a model of fidelity in his attendance upon all the 

services of the church, in his devout spirit and in the unostentatious 



Deacon Timothy 
1865-1& 



L. Partridge. 



IOS THROUGH FIFTY YEARS. 

manner in which he daily lived. In the fall of the same year two of 
the youth trained in our Sunday school and church, and ripened, 
under the discipline of months of sickness, into a beautiful exhibition 
of Christian resignation and hope, passed away — Walter, son of 
Mr. and Mrs. John P. Clark, and Carlos D., son of Mr. and Mrs. 
William Cook. 

The following year witnessed the death of three of our members, 

Mrs. Hannah J. Parrish, Mrs. Augusta M. Alden and Mrs. Catharine 

H. Farrell. All were faithful to their covenant vows and 

1871 consistent in their daily life. In midsummer of this 
year, the sudden summons came to another of our beloved 

young people, Sarah Swift, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. T. K. Adams. 
Surrounded with Christian influences from her earliest childhood, and 
specially cultured by the long illness and serene departure of her 
elder sister, she had been gently led into the choice of that better part 
which shall never be taken away from any who seek and find it. Her 
unexpected death while on a visit to Eastern friends, alone prevented 
her public profession of love to the Master upon whose service she 
had so sweetly entered. A single death from scarlet fever, among 
our children in January of this year, also awakened the greatest 
interest in our circle — that of Julia S. Ballard, the youngest daughter 
and child of our pastor's family. She was remarkably precocious, 
carefully instructed, and wonderfully responsive to all gracious 
influences, so that we were enabled to lay her away to her early rest 
with the full and comforting assurance, " It is well with the child." 

The year 1872 will long be notable in the annals of our church for 

the fulfillment, in the history of its membership, of the prophecy, 

"The child shall die a hundred years old." In its opening 

1872 month Mrs. Sarah S. Hall peacefully passed away after a 
life stretching for six months beyond the bounds of a 

century. This unwonted earthly pilgrimage was illuminated by every 
domestic virtue and a religious consecration that kept her cheerful, 
even joyous, to the last, notwithstanding the vicissitudes and changes 
of life and the increasing infirmities of her great age, and which found 
devout expression in the family devotions maintained to the end, and 
in the returning of thanks before every meal even after the little table 
was drawn to her bedside in the feebleness that waited upon the final 
steps that closed the long, long journey. She abundantly proved the 
faithfulness of God's promises in that, herself a model of filial 



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devotion to a bereaved father so long as he lived, her children in 
turn ministered to her every need with a loving care that left no wish 
ungratified, no want that lacked supply. 

The names of two others of our cherished members are also 
enrolled in the list of this year's losses — Mrs. M. L. Colwell and Mrs. 
Mary A. B. Swift. The former, living a long distance from church 
and closely confined at home by domestic cares, was known to but 
few, but by them was esteemed for her quiet virtues and blameless 
Christian character. The mention of the name of Mrs. Swift instantly 
recalls her bright face, her active participation in all the affairs of the 
church, and her intelligent and whole-hearted interest in whatever was 
calculated to establish its peace or promote its welfare. Descended 
from a long line of godly ancestors, including among them that 
noted early apostle to the Indians, John Elliot, she honored her 
lineage by her cheerful devotion to duty, and her faithful living in 
the fear of God. 

Early in the following year Mrs. Sarah Gilmore died after a 

painful invalidism that had extended through many years, but which 

was borne with an uncomplaining submission to the manifest 

1873 will of her Heavenly Father that made her faith a shining 
example. Two of our younger members foil-owed later on — 

Jessie Hudson in May, and Ella J. Parsons, daughter of Mrs. Mary 
Purdy, in August. Almost immediately after connecting herself with 
the church, the former was seized with a decline which neither medical 
skill nor the most loving care could arrest, and which, in the opening 
of a promising and beautiful young womanhood, shut her away from 
the world and gave her only wearisome days and nights as the portion 
appointed to her of God. But under such chastening influences her 
Christian character developed in rare beauty and strength until, when 
she passed away, we could but think of her as a precious flower trans- 
planted into the gardens of the King and by His own gracious hand. 
Mrs. Parsons, in her brief life, gave evidence of her genuine consecra- 
tion as a follower of her Lord and left behind a very pleasant memory. 
The year 1874 brought to us varied experiences. Mr. William 
Cook, one of our original thirteen members, and a quiet, unassuming 
man, was granted release from life's burdens, to be followed 

1874 soon after by Mr. Ralph C. Smith, prostrated by long-con- 
tinued business cares, against which he had vainly but bravely 

struggled. Mrs. Sarah E. Carey, one of our faithful, unobtrusive 



110 THROUGH FIFTY YEARS. 

members, died in July, and the same day witnessed the translation of 
Miss Jennie M. Moir. What a wealth of character and loveliness 
comes back with the mention of that name ! Reared amid surround- 
ings the most troublous and trying, with more than ordinary 
intellectual quickness, she made use of her scanty privileges with such 
diligence that she won entrance into the State Normal School, whence 
she came back to take her place as a teacher in the primary grade of 
one of the public schools in which she had been a pupil. From this 
position her aptitude and sterling good sense secured for her promo- 
tion, step by step, until she became Principal of one of our Union 
schools, doing her work with a skill and success that stamped her as a 
young woman of unusual natural gifts. At length, attacked by that 
insidious disease, consumption, she resisted heroically, but without 
avail, its steady inroads, until she was unable longer to discharge her 
responsible duties, even while lying upon a lounge in her private room 
in the school building. Then she went home to die. Her funeral 
took place from the old church on Fort Street, attended by the Board 
of Education and a throng of her mourning associates and friends. 
Her body was borne into and out of the church between lines of 
weeping children reaching from the door to the street curb, a priceless 
tribute to her worth as a sympathizing teacher and an unselfish friend. 
She was the light of her mother's home and the one solace of her 
widowed heart. Such a life as hers is one of the richest treasures that 
any church can possess. 

The year 1875 was memorable for the unusually large inroads 

made in the ranks of our active male membership. The names of 

George N. Gilmore, Minot T. Lane, George G. Deering, 

1875 Henry D. Edwards, Dr. Stephen Griggs and James Hepburn 

recall the memories of varied and useful services whereby, 

in one way and another, they had contributed not a little to the growth 

and influence of the church. The death of Mr. Augustus E. Bissell, 

for years connected with the society, and who could have been 

scarcely less interested had he been a member of the church itself, 

added to this unwonted measure of loss which we sustained. 

The crowning bereavement of the year was met when, in late 
October, Deacon Lyman Baldwin, after an illness of but ten days, 
strode from health and vigor to the grave. His was the first death to 
occur in our diaconate while in the service of the church, and closed a 
long life of activity whose best endeavor had always been given to 



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the interests of the Kingdom and people of God. Earnest, sincere 
and of a generous spirit, the law of the Lord was written in his heart 
and obeyed in his life with a willingness that testified that it was 
no grudging service that he 
rendered. Devoted to the wel- 
fare of the church which he 
loved with all his heart, and 
which honored and loved him 
in return; so regular and unfail- 
ing in his attendance upon all 
its services, as to render him an 
ensample to the flock ; always 
a helper to his pastor; the 
sympathizing friend of the 
humble and the poor; he closed 
this goodly history at the age 
of 74. Deacon Baldwin was 
also one of the charter members 
of the church. 

The record of the deaths 
of this year closes with the 

name of Mrs. Minerva Partridge, a woman of quiet and domestic 
tastes, but whose Christian influence was exerted in many unobtrusive 
ways. In all her words discreet and kindly, she left a pleasant 
memory. 

The year 1876 records the departure of two of our young people, 

Laura Richardson and Sophia Bathers, after a lingering illness in each 

case, borne with a sweet patience and resignation that marked 

1876 the strength of their Christian faith. Each had been long 

connected with our Sunday school, and both were just ripening 

into a beautiful and promising young womanhood. In midsummer Mr. 

Thomas K. Adams was carried to his last resting place. A man of 

few words, he was nevertheless strongly allied to the church, and 

aided it by his constant attendance and his unflagging interest, as well 

as by the steady example of his daily life wherein he walked as the 

good citizen and the honest man. In the late fall Mrs. Mary D. 

Riddell was called to her reward, to be followed shortly after by Mrs. 

Olive J. Clark at the age of 82. Mrs. Clark was a woman of unusual 

strength of character, the twentieth and last remaining child of Col. Giles 



Deacon Lyman Baldwin 
1856-1875. 



112 THROUGH FIFTY YEARS. 

Jackson of the Revolutionary Army. Her sympathies were early 
enlisted in the causes of home and foreign missions, temperance and 
anti-slavery, and her interest in them never flagged through a long 
and eventful life. Especially during her closing years did her heart 
go out to the freedmen, as they slowly and painfully struggled up 
from the Egypt of their long sojourn toward the Canaan which is even 
yet a land of promise to their baffled and weary pilgrimage. Among 
her papers were found receipts for barrel after barrel of clothing 
collected and packed with her own hands, grown feeble from age, and 
shipped to southern missions and schools. Few knew of this 
protracted, unselfish work of love, but she has long since heard the 
welcome, " Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of 
these My brethren ye have done it unto Me." 

The year 1877 did not record so many losses as some that 
preceded, but Heaven grew unwontedly rich at our expense in the 

value to us of those who were called home. Before the first 
1877 week had passed Sereno P. Hammond, the beloved assistant 

superintendent of our Sunday school, had ended the long 
and painful struggle for life in Florida, whither he had gone in the 
vain hope to find relief. A child of this church, born and reared in 
its communion, disciplined in the school of affliction by the loss of 
father and sister from the same dread disease that claimed him for its 
own, he had developed a rare beauty and symmetry of character. 
Never seeking prominence on the one hand or shunning responsi- 
bility on the other, cheerful yet serious, true and faithful in every 
relation, it is no matter of surprise that by silent and common consent 
he had come to be considered as the probable successor in office of 
the lamented Deacon Baldwin. Looking over his consistent and 
consecrated life, and remembering the unmurmuring patience with 
which he bore the deprivations and sufferings of his long decline while 
heroically discharging the duties of daily life, there comes to mind 
almost involuntarily the beatitude, as especially applicable to him, 
" Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God." 

Two months later came another heavy loss, which had been 
dreaded for weeks, in the death of Mr. Newell Avery. Burdened with 
an immense and widely-scattered business, managed with consummate 
sagacity and engrossing attention, he could not have large personal 
participation in the activities of our church. But absence from the 
city much of the time did not prevent his being a leading factor in 



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them. He was a man to do his part generously anywhere, and his 
considerate sympathy was an unfailing capital on which to draw. 
Possessed of sterling native good sense, with sound judgment united 
to a judicial temperament, and these royal characteristics dominated 
by an exceptionally kindly disposition, it is no wonder that he was 
readily accorded a leadership among all with whom he was brought 
in contact, won to him, as they were, by the wisdom of his counsels 
and the goodness of his heart. Well nigh a score of years have rolled 
away since last we saw him, but that commanding form and rugged 
yet pleasant and thoughtful face stand out in memory almost as 
distinctly as though he had left us but yesterday. 

Then followed in quick succession the death of Joseph E. Sparks, 
on the threshold of a promising career as an architect, and of Mrs. 
Harriet L. Gore, who was greatly esteemed by the few who knew her 
quiet, humble walk before God under the discipline of suffering and of 
heavy affliction. In July came the closing bereavement of the year 
in the loss of Mrs. Sophia E. Bostwick. The most of her married life 
had been spent in this church, into all whose- work she had entered 
with a joyous zeal, a generous sympathy and a loving considerateness 
that gave to her an ever-enlarging place in the labors and affections 
of our entire membership. Her departure, sudden and wholly 
unlooked for, was a great shock and grief to us all. 

Less than a year afterward, in 1878, Mrs. Polly Ashley, Mrs. 
Bostwick's mother, followed her daughter into the unseen world. 
It is seldom given to any church, or family, to number among 
1878 its members a lovelier character than was that of this 
saintly woman. She walked with God in evident and entire 
consecration. To her, " dying was but going home." The same year 
chronicled the going away of Mrs. Eveline M. Fuller, a joyous, 
growing Christian woman ; Miss Annie Bather, one of our beloved 
young people ; Rev. Sylvanus Warren, who, compelled for years to 
demit the work of the ministry, never abated interest in all that 
pertained to his Master's Kingdom, or ceased to contribute to it what 
of prayer or labor opportunity might offer ; Mr. E. W. Kendall, who, 
in the prime of his young manhood, had won the cordial respect of 
all who knew him by his earnest, consistent life ; and Mr. Abial Perrin, 
who, dying at the age of 80, had united with the church on the 
profession of his faith but two or three years previous, and having no 



114 THROUGH FIFTY YEARS. 

family, gave all his little property to religious objects as his crowning 
acknowledgment of that grace which had called him into the 
Kingdom, even when the eleventh hour had long been passed. 

Our losses again were many in 1879. As I §° over the long list — 

Mrs. Lydia B. Tarbell, Mrs. Eliza G. Porter, Capt. Robert J. Hackett, 

Mrs. Mary Foster, Mrs. Mary J. Barnard, Mrs. Emeline C. 

1879 Hall, Mr. Henry T. Brush, Mrs. Mary L. Hawley, Mrs. 
Deborah S. Miller, and Mrs. Hannah Bowen — what a tide 

of memories roll back upon the thought ! Especially distinct will be 
the remembrance of Mrs. Tarbell, for a long time one of our valued 
and faithful members; Mr. Brush, cut down on the threshold of what 
promised to be an active and brilliant career ; Capt. Hackett, generous, 
hearty and helpful, who, in a comparatively brief period took a 
foremost position in our affectionate regard ; Mrs. Barnard, so long 
identified with us, a woman of outspoken word and impulsive deed, 
but who carried this church on her heart and loved its very stones to 
the last; Mrs. Hall, possessed of sterling worth but of quiet, domestic 
tastes that shut away from all but a few the knowledge of her earnest 
and intelligent Christian sympathies and purpose ; and Mrs. Miller, 
whose prayers and alms went up before God without ceasing, to the 
end that His Kingdom might come, and whose refined presence and 
gentle ways were a blessing to all who came within the circle of her 
pleasant companionship. 

There was again a large inroad into our ranks in 1880, as is 

evidenced in this list : Mrs. Hearty D. Griggs, Mr. Christian Melius, 

Mrs. Huldana S. Henry, Mr. Lee Parrish, Mrs. Mancy 

1880 Baldwin, Mr. Jacob D. Fuller and Charlotte Carew. Mrs. 
Griggs united with the church on profession of her faith 

after she had passed the age of four score, carrying out a purpose 
she had cherished for years, and ended in peace a long and blameless 
life. Mrs. Henry was everywhere a woman of marked character and 
influence, while her faithful attendance upon all the services of God's 
house, and her steady devotion to the many and wide interests it is 
set to serve, abundantly testified to the strength of her religious 
convictions, and her fidelity to their dictates. Mrs. Baldwin, one of 
our charter members, was very domestic and retired in her tastes and 
hence was not prominent in our church activities, but in her home 
she reigned supreme as the center of a circle bound together by the 
ties of a peculiarly strong affection. 



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Mr. Fuller was an ardent, decided Christian man, sharing in the 
spirit of his wife, who had preceded him by nearly three years, and 
whose loss he never ceased to mourn. Struggling many months with 
a disease of the heart, and knowing that his summons might come at 
even or at midnight or at the cock crowing, he calmly went on his 
way, committing the event into the hands of the Lord in whom was 
all his trust. And when, one morning, he was found quietly sleeping 
his last, long, dreamless sleep, it seemed as though one of God's angels 
— and we could easily guess which one it would be — had come to talk 
with him during the night, and with his heavenly visitor he had 
wandered away. 

Charlotte Carew was one of the characters of our church. A 
confirmed epileptic for years and living in deep poverty, her greatest 
and almost only solace was in attendance upon the services of the 
sanctuary, and, tarrying in the empty church between the morning 
hour and the afternoon Sunday school, she would go from one room 
to another singing the simple hymns she had learned, the one testi- 
mony she could render to the happiness and gratitude that knew no 
other form of expression. She was weak in intellect, the result of her 
affliction, but when she came to us and earnestly expressed her longing 
to unite with the church, and evinced so correct an apprehension of 
the obligations which she would assume, we did not dare to say her 
nay, and ever after it was a source of unalloyed comfort and joy to 
her to be numbered among the people of God. We could not mourn 
when at length release came to this simple and sorely tried one, and 
we knew that to her entrance was granted into that Kingdom where- 
unto whoso cometh must enter as a little child. 

The record of 1881 shows the departure of Mrs. Isabella Bow, 

Mrs. Almira Clark, Barent V. B. Wells, Mrs. Mary Easterbrook and 

her daughter Julia, Mrs. Lydia S. Duncklee and Deacon 

1881 Sherman S. Barnard. Mrs. Clark was the sister of Mrs. Titus 

Coan, wife of the veteran Sandwich Islands missionary, who 

was scarcely second to her celebrated husband in point of rare ability, 

successful labors and devoted consecration to the work to which she 

gave her life. Mrs. Clark possessed many of her sister's capabilities, 

but the feebleness of age secluded her from any participation in the 

work of the church. "Father" Wells, as he was always called, was 

one of our oldest members, poor in this world's goods, but rich in faith 



Il6 THROUGH FIFTY YEARS. 

and unusually versed in the knowledge of God's word. His voice was 
a familiar one in our prayer meetings in supplication and remark, and 
was rarely heard but to edification. 

The name of Mrs. Easterbrook recalls a history of unusual sadness. 
The widow of an English minister, she came to this country with her 
two daughters soon after their bereavement, in quest of readier means 
to gain a livelihood. The mother kept the little home while the 
daughters earned a moderate compensation by their daily labor, the 
elder being especially skillful and winsome. Always cheerful and self- 
respecting, with a neatness and taste in dress and in their humble 
abode that marked them as the possessors of true gentility, they 
quickly found their way into our hearts, and were soon numbered 
among our active and most esteemed members. So ran on the even, 
pleasant tenor of their ways for several years, when, suddenly, the 
mother was taken sick, and before we knew her condition she was 
gone. The eldest daughter, Julia, a young woman who was her 
mother's special companion and counselor, was completely prostrated 
by her grief and the shock of the terrible blow, and as she turned away 
from the grave fell in a dead faint, and never fully recovered the pos- 
session of her faculties. Fever 
set in, delirium followed, and 
in three weeks she rejoined her 
^00**.«^ mother in that Land where the 

inhabitant never says, " I am 
sick." There were those among 
their new found friends in this 
land of their adoption who felt 
this startling extinguishment of 
the light of that modest home 
almost as sorely as if it had 
been a personal loss, so pecu- 
liarly serene and bright had its 
Christian radiance shone. 
,-^H On the 7th of August Deacon 

Deacon Sherman S. Barnard. Barnard died at the age of 75. 

i8 45-i88i. He was one of the original thir- 

teen members who organized 
the church and was chosen its first deacon, a position which he held to 
the close of his life. The invaluable service which he rendered this 




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church in the time of its greatest financial need at heavy cost and sacri- 
fice to himself, and the fidelity with which he watched over all its inter- 
ests during the years of its early struggles and later growth, are they 
not written in the chronicles of our Quarter Centennial? The closing 
years of his life saw him wholly laid aside and helpless from the 
infirmities of age, so that he had necessarily ceased to be an active 
participant in our church affairs, but the long record of his unselfish 
devotion can never be effaced from its history, or he lose the place 
which that history will assign to him as the hero par excellence of the 
"Old First." 

The year 1882 brought to us the loss of three of our oldest 
members, Mrs. Nancy Adams, Mrs. Juliana T. Backus and Mrs. Eliza 

Hall. The last named will be especially well remembered 
1882 because of the steady fidelity with which she attended all 

our services and the willing response she always gave to 
every call of duty, so far as time and strength would allow. Two 
others who had been of our number but for a short time, Mr. Edward 
A. Trumbull and Mrs. Lucy W. Jones, are also recorded among the 
deaths of this year, to which should be added the name of Mr. George 
J. Tarbell, for years a valued member of the society, and always inter- 
ested in our welfare. 

Early in the following year we parted with deep regret with 
Mrs. Eliza D. Clark. She was reserved in manner, but a woman of 

more than ordinary intelligence and strength of character, 
1883 and entered with especial heartiness into the missionary 

activities of our church. Soon after, another member, 
Mrs. Sophia Howe, faithful in her attendance upon, and deriving 
great comfort and help from, the privileges of God's house, closed a 
life conspicuous for its humble submission to and patient waiting upon 
the Lord, whom she served out of a pure heart and fervently. In 
May, Mrs. Eliza A. Granger closed a life that had been marked in an 
unwonted degree with the changes of fortune, through all of which she 
had preserved an evenness of temper, an unselfish devotion to her 
friends, that never took thought of herself, and a silent doing of every 
duty that made her life one long act of sincere consecration, whose 
praise is not of men but of God. The names of Mrs. Avarino E. 
Jones, a comparatively new comer among us, and Mrs. Jane Carter, 
an old and always interested member, complete the roll of the dead 
of 1883. 



Il8 THROUGH FIFTY YEARS. 

The first three months of 1884 recorded the departure of Mrs. 

Elizabeth Cooper, pleasantly remembered for her quiet devotion to 

duty; Mrs. Alice Wilkins Warren a child of the church, 

1884 trained in its Sunday school, and developing into a refined 
Christian womanhood whose beauty was cut off in the midst 

of its early promise ; and Mrs. Mary Stetson, one of our oldest 
members. In late December these were followed by Mrs. Mary F. 
Meacham, who came to us with our pastor's family in the earlier part 
of the year. It is rare indeed that one becomes so thoroughly 
allied with all the interests of a church in so short a time as did Mrs. 
Meacham. With an intelligent concern for everything that had to 
do with the progress of God's Kingdom upon earth, she instantly 
identified herself with all the activities of the church, after a manner 
that was at once a shining pattern and a stimulating example. But a 
few months were given her in which to do her work, for the sudden 
coming on of hopeless and painful disease admonished her that the 
end was drawing nigh. But all this did not lessen, the rather did it 
quicken, her earnestness and zeal, so that her going at the last was as 
though we had lost one with whom we had long journeyed in 
company, so complete and altogether admirable had been her devotion 
to the work which had enlisted the fullest energies of her heart and 
hand. 

The first week of 1885 recorded the departure of Mrs. Melesent 

W. Bissell, for many years a member with us and serving her Master 

with sincerity of purpose and singleness of heart. She was 

1885 followed soon after by Mrs. Esther Fisher, another old 
member, but who, owing to domestic cares, had ceased to be 

active in church affairs for many years. In midsummer came the loss 
of Mr. John G. Tarbell, who had been identified with us for thirty 
years, and had been especially useful as chairman of the Music 
Committee. He is also most pleasantly remembered as, for much of 
this period, an usher in the old church, an office which he magnified 
by a great fidelity and a never-failing courtesy, and in which he made 
himself an example for all who should come after him. In December, 
Mrs. Frances J. Tarbell passed away, another of our old and much 
esteemed members, quiet and undemonstrative, but never lacking in 
interest in all that in any wise concerned the progress of our church. 

A valuable member of the society, Mr. William H. Teft, died in 
midsummer. He had been connected v/ith the Music Committee for 



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ten years, and in his generous care and faithful attention to this 
important part of the worship of the church, had rendered most 
signal and excellent service. 

But three members died in 1886, Mr. J. E. Richards, Mrs. Mary 
H. Beach and Mrs. Minnie Kendrick, all little known by reason of 

their brief residence among us, followed the succeeding year 
1886 by Mr> w j Craig, Mrs. Harriet Clarkson Seafrid and Mrs. 
!88y Lucy Crosman. The last named had long been a member 

with us, but for the later years of her life had been largely 
shut away from active participation in the work of the church. But 
her intelligent and active sympathies were always to be counted on 
and never ceased to be brought into exercise. 

In 1888 the number of our dead was considerably increased. 
Mrs. Emma C. Wright was the first to be called away, closing a long 

period of invalidism, borne with a patience and resignation 
1888 that had their firm foundation in an earnest Christian faith. 

She was followed by Mrs. Edith Ryder Scott, one of our 
devoted young members, and Mrs. Mary A. Wilson, well remembered 
for the quiet fidelity with which she discharged all her obligations to 
the church which she loved. About the same time is recorded the 
death of Elbridge Gibson, succeeded soon after by Dr. Samuel 
Adams, who only lacked a formal enrollment in our list of members 
to be numbered as one of this household of faith, his actual connec- 
tion being with the First Church of San Francisco, with which, in 
previous years, he had long been identified. He was one of the most 
lovable of men, with a sunny disposition, wide intelligence and a 
ripened Christian character, and was especially missed in the midweek 
meeting, where, in remark and prayer, his voice was often heard, and 
always to the pleasure and profit of his brethren. 

The sad roll concludes for the year with the name of Mrs. 
Rachel J. Hammond, one of our oldest members. One after another 
she had seen every member of her family taken from her, and for 
years had waited for the summons that should call her to a joyful 
reunion with them. With a patience that was pathetic in the sweet- 
ness of its resignation, she kept herself busy as best she could, listening 
intent meanwhile for the voice that should proclaim for her a glad 
release from bodily weakness and the hunger of the heart that 
reached forth with unappeasable longings after those whose names 



120 THROUGH FIFTY YEARS. 

were often on her lips, and never absent from her thought. We 
could but rejoice for her when she peacefully followed her loved 
ones into the skies. 

The year 1889 was yet more memorable in the losses we were 
called upon to sustain. Mrs. Eliza Robinson was the first to go, a 

woman who loved the house of God, where it was her joy to 
1889 gather with His people to offer her sincere tribute of worship 

and praise. Mrs. Azuba Clark, another faithful member, 
after a wearisome and painful illness, followed to her welcome rest, 
and soon after Mr. John H. Conant passed through the gates of a 
slow decline into eternal life, leaving behind a pleasant memory. But 
a few weeks passed when we were called to mourn the loss of Dr. 
Judson Bradley, a beloved physician who will long be remembered in 
many a home of the poor, where he wrought a true and devoted 
service for the Master whom he honored by his self-denying and 
comforting ministrations. Only three days elapsed when he was 
followed by another of our oldest members, Mr. Charles B. Hebbard, 
who was called away with scarcely a moment's warning. He was 
notably faithful in his attendance upon Sabbath worship, and in his 
thoughtful courtesies to strangers who were in casual attendance with 
us. William H. White, one of our newest members, and a young 
man of the highest character and of much promise, died about the 
same time in another State, where he was temporarily sojourning. 

Then came the shock of a great loss to all hearts as we realized 
that Mrs. Alice Eddy Curtiss should be with us no more. She was 
just entering upon young womanhood, with a life of the brightest 
promise opening before her. She had already achieved a marked 
success as a writer of prose and poetry for the religious press, 
attracting to herself wide attention and an affectionate interest on the 
part of those whom she had touched, that reached far beyond the 
bounds of any personal acquaintance. All this had not changed the 
simplicity and sincerity of her character, or altered the manifest 
purpose of her life, devoted as it was to the service of her Lord. In 
the midst of plans for more extended labors and usefulness she was 
summoned to other spheres of activity, and left us to miss her 
pleasant companionship and to mourn the sudden termination of a 
life that had in it so large a promise of good for this needy world 
of ours. 



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The year's record closes with the name of Mr. David M. 
Richardson. He had been one of our most active and influential 
members for many years by reason of his business enterprise and 
prominence, his intelligent interest in all the benevolent work of the 
church and his possession of ample means. He was a man of strong 
will and pronounced opinions, which sometimes seemed not the most 
practicableor wise to his brethren, but withal he seriously recognized 
the claims of his stewardship, and lent a willing ear and an open hand 
to the manifold calls that came to him for aid. To his personal 
superintendence for years of the Trumbull Avenue Mission Sunday 
School, and his generous donations for its maintenance during the 
same period, is very largely due the existence of Plymouth Church 
to-day. His gifts to our own church and its various benevolences, 
also, were neither few nor small, and they deserve our grateful 
recognition in this memorial. 

Mention should also be made of Mr. Simeon Folsom, long an 
active and trusted member of the society, whose decease occurred 
early in this year at the age of J J. The day of his death and of his 
birth was the same in the monthly calendar, and the last day 
of his life was the only one in which he was ever sick. He 
was a man of sturdy characteristics, and rendered much valuable 
service to us for years as one of our board of trustees. 

Early in 1890 Mrs. Philomel Linzee passed away, leaving the 

memory of a very sweet Christian character and a life of patient 

fidelity to every call of duty that remains to this day fresh 

1890 and attractive to all who knew her. Soon after Mr. D. M. 

Cooper was called hence, another quiet, unobtrusive member, 

held in restraint somewhat by an affliction of deafness, but of genuine 

Christian worth, whose place in the house of God was always occupied 

and whose consecration was whole-hearted and sincere. 

In late September, Dorothy Jones died amid the mountains and 
valleys of Wales, the dwelling place of her ancestors, where she was 
visiting with her parents. She longed for the city and home of her 
birth during the weary hours of her last sickness, and God answered 
her prayer, as He often does His children, by giving her much more 
than she craved, taking her to that Home and City of whose exceeding 
glory and beauty eye hath not seen nor ear heard, nor hath it entered 
into the heart of man the conception thereof. Her body was brought 
back to this city and rests in beautiful Woodmere. Of such as this 



122 THROUGH FIFTY YEARS. 

dear child is the kingdom of Heaven. Later on, Mrs. Olive Lacey, 
far advanced in years and at the opposite extreme of life, dropped the 
infirmities of age which had bound her for years and was clothed upon 
with eternal youth. She was an active, whole-hearted disciple, and in 
the chair to which she was almost exclusively confined, manifested a 
zeal and interest in everything that had to do with the progress of 
God's Kingdom in this world, and in personal obedience to His will, 
that would put to shame many professing Christians in the possession 
of abounding health and the multitude of life's good things. The 
name of Mrs. Celia Melius closes the year's record, a member who 
had but a nominal connection with us for a long time. 

Again the tide of loss rises in 1891 as the following names sadly 
testify: Rhoda Cowles, Mrs. Mary Moir, Mrs. Julia P. Waterhouse, 
Mrs. Janet Robertson, Mrs. Melissa Lerchen, Rev. Zachary 
1891 Eddy, D. D., Mrs. Ella Bilby and Mrs. Sarah Brydon. Miss 
Cowles — "Aunt Rhoda," as we were wont most often to call 
her — was another of the charter members of our church, and the only 
one received on that memorable occasion upon the confession of her 
faith. She was a woman of marked individuality and many excellent 
traits. Never married, she had reared the children of a deceased sister 
so carefully and well that they scarcely knew any other mother. 
Living alone among us in a very humble abode, she had fought single- 
handed the battle of life with a shrewdness and energy that often dis- 
comfited the crafty or dishonest men who sought to take advantage 
of her. Urged by those to whom she had been so faithful a foster- 
mother, and whose filial affection would gladly have supplied every 
want and care, she could not be persuaded to take up any permanent 
residence with them and away from Detroit, but clung to her home 
with an attachment that nothing could overcome, a large element in 
which was the strength of her interest in this the only church she ever 
knew. In the fear of God she lived and in His peace she passed away, 
closing a long life of humble fidelities whose reward shall be found 
on high. 

In the death of Mrs. Moir, one of our oldest members, another 
history of long and pathetic waiting came to its end. Ever 
since the death of her beloved daughter — " my jewel," as she would 
sometimes speak of her with tears glistening in her eyes — she had 
lived alone. Crippled for life by a fall, with that sturdy independence 
that is so predominant in the Scotch character, she had maintained 



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herself with a skill in method and a carefulness in economy that were 
a marvel to the few who knew anything of her affairs, her only dread 
being lest her funeral expenses should not be paid out of her own 
scanty means and before their complete exhaustion. Hers had been a 
stormy life, full of trouble and struggle that would have crushed many 
another, and, shut up at last to herself and her Bible, getting about 
only with difficulty and pain, she waited for weary years for the call of 
her Master and ready with all joy to respond to the summons. Sub- 
missive to His will in whom was all her trust, she hushed the longings 
of her heart and tarried in quietness and utmost patience till her 
change should come. And it is one of the glad privileges of this 
occasion to know that at last she has entered into the fullness of her 
rest, and that by the side of the river of the water of life, and beneath 
the trees that stand upon its banks with their wonderful manner of 
fruits, waiting mother and beloved daughter, reunited, walk hand in 
hand to-night. "And they shall go no more out forever." 

Mrs. Waterhouse was among our newer members, but one whose 
love for the house of God and desire for the~coming of His Kingdom 
were so constant and intelligent that she quickly became identified 
with His people and active in all their special interests, and we 
counted it a loss indeed when called to mourn her departure from the 
scenes and associations that were made glad by her coming into their 
midst. Mrs. Robertson was another of our oldest members, conspic- 
uous for her faithful and devout attendance upon our Sabbath 
worship. Mrs. Lerchen was still another of those members of whom 
a church can never have enough, whose presence in the sanctuary and 
at the midweek meeting was so steadfast as to be a help and an 
inspiration to the pastor, and an honor to the Master whom she 
joyfully served. Mrs. Bilby and Mrs. Brydon were less generally 
known among us, prolonged illness having for years kept them from 
any active participation in our work. 

Dr. Eddy's death brought to a close, a long, busy and useful 
career. His was a striking personality. His large physical propor- 
tions were fittingly allied with uncommon intellectual endowments. 
He was possessed of strong logical powers, a poetic temperament, a 
vivid imagination and superior descriptive abilities. An omniverous 
reader and blessed with a retentive memory, his large acquisitions of 
knowledge were made tributary to his use with a skill and strength 
matched by but few in the pulpits of the land, and yet more rarely 



124 THROUGH FIFTY YEARS. 

surpassed. He was a great lover of good poetry and wonderfully 
apt in its quotation to illustrate, beautify and enforce his theme. As 
a reader of hymns I have never heard his equal and never expect to. 
He was also a passionate lover of music, a good singer, and a critic of 
both musical production and performance of superior quality. It is 
no wonder that large audiences were held in closest attention by the 
attractive garb in which he clothed his thought and the force with 
which he pressed it upon their attention. At the same time, Dr. 
Eddy was not without his defects, possibly given as a sharp contrast 
to all this splendid equipment, and designed to preserve him from 
being exalted overmuch, or his people from lavishing on him an 
unbounded admiration that should grow into an unwholesome 
idolatry. As pastor of this church he did a large and valuable work, 
which contributed materially to the impetus that has attended its 
subsequent development and growth. 

It is meet also that in the losses of this year mention should be 
made of the death of Mr. William A. Butler, a valuable member of 
the society almost from the beginning. His ability, experience and 
knowledge as a business man of foremost capacity were often brought 
into requisition in times of stress in our financial affairs, and he was 
never appealed to in vain, while his steady contribution for the 
regular support of the church through all these years demonstrated 
the interest which he felt, an interest which found its crowning 
expression in his will, whereby he left $3,000 to apply towards the 
extinguishment of the debt on our new house of worship. 

In the very opening days of 1892, Henry C. Bates died in 

California, whither he had gone in the vain hope of securing a 

restoration of health. In him our young people lost one of 

1892 their most active and best-loved members, and a life of 

attractive promise was cut off while as yet it had scarcely 

begun. In the same month Mrs. Eva A. Rogers passed away, greatly 

to our grief and loss. She was one of our members in all save 

the name, having retained her connection, with all her family, with 

the First Church of San Francisco, but uniting herself practically 

with all the interests of this church, and being thoroughly allied 

to it in sympathy and effort. The good angel of her own home, 

her influence was felt in a gentle, winsome way far outside the 

domestic circle, and she left behind a memory that was very precious 

and sweet. 



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Soon after, Mrs. Mary Wales went to her coveted rest after a life of 
unwonted toil and care, endured with a patience and fortitude that 
only the most implicit trust in God could have supplied. She loved the 
sanctuary and was always to be found therein when possible. In the 
midst of poverty and with her own personal labor she had long main- 
tained an aged mother, helpless from the burden of years and far gone 
in her second childhood, refusing the suggestion of outside aid to lift a 
load from her hands which it was an astonishment she was able to carry. 
Every requirement of filial duty scrupulously met at last, and worn 
out with her incessant exertion, she soon after followed her mother 
into that Land which knows no tired feet or hands or head, and where 
the weary such as she find a long and blessed repose. 

In rapid succession came the death of Mrs. Althea George, Mrs. 
Margaret Fisher and Mr. John Henderson, followed soon after by the 
loss of Mrs. Mary A. Hurd. Spending a busy lifetime elsewhere as a 
pastor's wife, Mrs. Hurd came to Detroit to pass the closing years 
that should be vouchsafed to her in quiet retirement, and by her 
intelligence, womanly dignity and hearty concern in all the enter- 
prises that seek to hasten on the coming and the Kingdom of our 
Lord, made for herself a place among us, especially in our ladies' 
missionary circle, that missed her when she had gone. 

But a short time elapsed when we were called to lament the all 
too early departure of Mrs. Mercia M. Sumner. We had just begun 
to know and prize her for her cheerful and ready devotion to every 
duty, and her zeal in seeking to promote in all ways the peace and 
welfare of the church, when a hopeless and painful malady fastened 
itself upon her and finally tore her from us. It is given to few in so 
brief a period to gather to themselves so large a share in the affec- 
tionate regard of those with whom their lot is cast, as did this patient 
sufferer in the short time that she was numbered among us. 

The year's record closes with the name of Mr. Eralsey Ferguson, 
who, coming into the church late in life, had only begun to be known 
to our membership, but whose generous heart and genial ways had 
already given him a place and a name among us not soon to be 
forgotten. 

In the list of the dead of this year may properly be included 
Judge Jared Patchen, a constant attendant with us, and who had 
purposed uniting with this church upon the confession of his faith — 
a step which he had contemplated for a considerable time and to 



126 THROUGH FIFTY YEARS. 

which he had been brought by the deliberate and well-considered 
convictions of duty. There should also be added the name of Mrs. 
Ellen E. Jones, who, while not enrolled among our members, was 
interested in all that pertained to the progress of the church, and 
who passed away in the midst of a beautiful womanhood. 

The losses of 1893 were not so many as in the years immediately 
preceding, but included those who were greatly prized for their varied 

qualities and worth. The first to go was Mrs. Mary E. 
1893 Kennedy. Hers was another instance of a comparatively 

new member coming a stranger and quickly transformed into 
a familiar friend, by reason of the prompt and ready interest and 
activity that she manifested in the worship of God's house and in all 
that pertained to the work of the church. Her connection with us 
was not in name and form merely, but earnest, vital and sincere. 
Then quickly followed Mrs. Eliza A. Parsons, an early and life-long 
member. She had been with this church in all the struggles of its 
opening life, and had been devoted to its welfare in every stage of its 
development. With great kindness of heart and ready tact, her 
influence had been widely and beneficently felt in a multitude of 
pleasant ways throughout all the ranks of our large fellowship, and 
there are few among us who, at some time or other, have not had 
occasion to acknowledge the graciousness of some considerate word 
or act of hers that was meant to serve as a ministry of happiness or 
good. Her memory will long be affectionately cherished among us. 

Mrs. Jane Bates died a month later, another old member, whose 
prayers and quiet fidelities had always been given without stint to 
this Zion of her love, which she prized above her chief joy. She was. 
followed by Mr. John James, one of our oldest members, who had 
lived away from the city for several years, but still retained his . 
connection with us. He died at the age of 87. So constant in his 
attendance upon the Sabbath and mid-week meetings as to be a model 
of fidelity, willing and hearty in his support of the church through 
all its years of struggle and sacrifice, he will long be held in pleasant 
remembrance. Next came Miss Isabella Motherwell, also having a 
long-time connection with us. She was shy and retiring in disposi- 
tion and therefore known to but few, but by those few she was greatly 
esteemed for her native nobility of character and her unaffected 
consecration of heart and life. Only three days after, Miss Clara 
Rand, without a moment's premonition, passed into the unseen world. 
Possessing a bright and joyous disposition, ever ready to give her 



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help in any practicable way to promote the interests of this church, her 
unexpected loss fell with special heaviness upon our young people, 
among whom she was greatly beloved. 

Our crowning grief for the year came when Mrs. Frances S. 
Warner went from us. Hers was a Christian character of rare beauty 
and exalted worth. Her tireless feet and busy hands were ever 
about the Master's business with an unselfishness, a glad and hearty 
devotion, that made her life one long and continuous act of consecra- 
tion. Her charities were as silent as the dew and as abounding and 
blessed as the sunshine. She loved her God out of a pure heart 
fervently, and rejoiced at every opportunity to serve Him. Strange it 
is to us, so little can we see and know, that such a willing and faithful 
disciple should be tried so as by fire, yet this was her portion. For 
years she had beaten back the approaches of a dread disease with 
heroic courage, but at length, every resource exhausted, she turned to 
face her foe for the last time. She was the first to convey -the 
distressing intelligence to her friends, with no tremor in her voice 
or pallor on her cheek, talking as quietly of it as though she were 
speaking of taking rest in sleep. Then she turned away alone to walk 
upon the burning coals of pain, while slowly bending lower and lower 
under the fast falling blows of suffering that knew no deliverance 
save through the gates of death. But not a murmur of complaint 
or impatience escaped her lips ; she endured as seeing Him who is 
invisible. And thus was given unto her entrance into that Kingdom 
whose interests were always foremost in her thought and to which 
she devoted a life of joyous service. "I was dumb; I opened not 
my mouth because Thou didst it." 

Three other deaths in our fellowship during 1893 may properly be 
noted here. Mr. Alvah E. Leavitt was one of the most recent 
members of our society and an old and respected citizen. A long 
illness had kept him from any active participation in our affairs, but 
did not prevent him from manifesting a growing interest in them in 
various ways. Mr. William Bourn and Mr. Frank R. Aldrich had 
long been of our membership in all but name, concerned in everything 
that had reference to the welfare of the church, and seeking its peace 
and prosperity with singleness of purpose and desire. The first 
passed to his reward at the end of a protracted decline, while the last 
named responded to the final summons "in a moment, in the twinkling 
of an eye." Both left behind them the good hope that they were 
found not slothful servants. 



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THROUGH FIFTY YEARS. 



At this point I step aside for a moment from the path prescribed 
for me by the strict requirements of this occasion to make mention of 
five names of members for a long time actively connected with us, 
but at the period of their death outside the ranks of our fellowship. It 
would seem a real deprivation if their memory were not at last 
embalmed in such a memorial as this. 




Mrs. Mel vina R. Eddy. 

Wife of Rev. Zachary Eddy, D. D. 



Mrs. Melvina R. Eddy passed away at Atlanta, Georgia, in 1886, 
where she was associated with her husband in his last pastoral labors. 
It was not possible that she could actually sever the relations with us 
established by ten years of unwearied activity, or that we could fail 
to hold her labors among us in admiring remembrance. She was a 
woman of extraordinary executive abilities, completely devoted to her 



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duties as a pastor's wife, and discharging them in all their wide import 
with a zeal, a discretion and a success that have left an ineffaceable 
impress upon the history of this church. Her husband's bow abode 
in its great strength not a little because of the stanch loyalty with 
which she seconded all his efforts, and because at all times she was 
his wise counselor and his truest friend. 

Dr. Noadiah D. Stebbins died at Dowagiac, in this State, in 1888, 
at the age of 87. From almost the beginning, and for many years, he 
was one of our best loved members because of his ministries of 
affection and help in so many of our homes. Never did a physician 
more completely carry his patients on his heart than did this devoted 
friend, watching over them with a skill and patience and tenderness 
that knew no bounds to the sacrifice of time and strength he was 
ever ready to make. It is no 
wonder that his hair early 
whitened under the sorrows 
and anxieties of others that 
he was continually making his 
own. Gratitude that no words 
can express from an unnum- 
bered host that were made his 
debtors, abides with his blessed 
memory. 

Rev. Oren C. Thompson 
died in this city in 1890, at the 
age of 84. He was a pioneer in 
the gospel ministry in this State, 
coming here when it was yet a 
territory, and always casting in 
his lot as a pastor with home 
mission churches. He was the 
moderator of the council that 
organized the " Old First," and 
was our second Sunday school 
superintendent. For the last twenty-five years of his life his time 
and energies were given to a circle of small churches within a radius 
of thirty miles of Detroit, among which he did a self-denying and 
invaluable work as a judicious adviser, a faithful preacher of the word 
and a steadfast friend. He loved this labor with the humble people 





Rev. Oren C. Thompson, 

Sunday School Superintendent, 1849-1851. 



130 THROUGH FIFTY YEARS. 

who are God's special heritage, and among them remembrance of him 
remains to this day as ointment poured forth. I have often coveted 
for this church the recovery of his name to its roll, where it stood 
for many years, but he preferred that it should be found at the last 
with one of the little churches that were his special care. 

Mrs. Julia P. Ballard, the well-remembered wife of the third 
pastor of this church, died in New York city early in the present year. 




Mrs. Julia P. Ballard. 

Wife of Rev. Addison Ballard, D. D. 

She was possessed of a character of peculiar loveliness and excellence. 
Her consecration was complete and she was ever intensely interested 
in seeing God's hand in the works of His wonderful and infinite 
creation as well as in the marvels of His grace. With a mind of great 
acuteness, she had made herself an authority in some branches of 
scientific investigation, while she had achieved an enviable reputation 



MEMORIAL ADDRESS. I 3 I 

in the field of general literature, in both prose and poetry, by her 
published books and her frequent contributions to the religious press. 
Her influence as a pastor's wife was felt throughout the church in the 
silent rather than the demonstrative ways of leadership, wherein she 
rendered a most useful and efficient service. The tribute which one 
poet has paid to another can fittingly be applied to her: 

" None knew thee but to love thee, 
Nor named thee but to praise." 

Mr. Israel Coe died in Waterbury, Conn., in 1891, at the great age 
of 97. He had long been absent, visiting us only at rare intervals, 
but the valuable service he rendered this church in its early period of 
growth is still gratefully recalled among us by all who are familiar 
with the history of the struggles of those early times. He was a man 
of high character and commanding influence, and never ceased to 
follow our development with special interest and pleasure. In him 
the Psalmist's words of triumphant assurance found a singularly 
complete fulfillment : " With long life will I satisfy him and I will 
show him my salvation." 



The closing year of our half-century has witnessed such a swelling 
tide of bereavement among us as is altogether unexampled in our 

history. Early in January, Mrs. Harriet E. Douglass, after a 
1894 courageous struggle with disease and suffering was called 

home. She was frank and open-hearted, never laggard in 
doing her full part in any service, and throwing herself into all our 
church life with an abandon of good will that kindled enthusiasm in 
others by its noble contagion. Such generous natures as was hers are 
a special treasure to any church that is privileged to enroll them in 
its membership. Mr. James McKellar soon followed — one of our 
newer members whom we were just beginning to know and increas- 
ingly to prize when he was suddenly called away. 

Then came the loss of one much beloved among us, Mrs. Florence 
J. Strong. Intensely earnest in her convictions and supremely true to 
them, prompt in her response to every call of duty and giving herself 
without stint to the service of others, often in much bodily weakness, 
she was one of our active, untiring workers, whose help was always 
to be counted on in any enterprise which the church had in hand, and 
was doubled in value by reason of the heartiness with which it was 
given. The places of such as Mrs. Strong are not easily filled. Closely 
following upon each other came the departure of Mr. E. William Cobb 



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and of Mr. Hiram Granger — the former one of the foremost in promise 
of activity and usefulness among our young men, and whose early loss 
was deeply mourned ; the latter long with us but for years past almost 
wholly laid aside on account of increasing age, but whose liberal 
support at an earlier period is still well remembered among us. 

Following these, and almost before we knew that he was sick, 
came the sorrowful tidings of the death of Mr. Edwin C. Hinsdale, 

one of our honored deacons. 
He was a man of sterling worth. 
Whether in public station or 
private life, his integrity was 
never questioned. No ship was 
ever truer to her helm than was 
he to the dictates of conscience, 
nor was it his wont under the 
influence of self-interest to force 
those dictates to a false utter- 
ance. He humbly and sincerely 
sought to know the will of God, 
and Paul himself was not more 
obedient to the heavenly vision 
than was this good man when 
it was made apparent to him 
what his Lord would have him 
do. This church was very dear 
to his heart and he cherished 
its interests as the apple of his 
eye. Nor did he stop with this. 
He earnestly desired to see the 
in the earth, and rejoiced at the 
Nor were his prayers alone offered 



- 




Deacon Edwin C. Hinsdale. 

1878-1894. 

Kingdom of God fully established 
multiplying tokens of its progress. 



up to this blessed end, but he gave generously and gladly to all our 
benevolent causes, esteeming self-denial a privilege and not a burden 
that he might help on the glorious work. Living for years in the 
prospect of sudden death, he had calmly committed himself into the 
care of a covenant-keeping God, and had gone on the even tenor of 
his way, anxious only to be numbered among those servants whom his 
Lord should find watching at His coming. As I look back over his 
long and upright course, so true to every trust, so affectionate, 



MEMORIAL ADDRESS. 133 

responsive and friendly in all the relations of private life, I am con- 
strained to take up the cry of the Psalmist : " Help, Lord, for the 
godly man ceaseth, for the faithful fail among the children of men." 

Crowding close one upon the other, next came the going out from 
among us of Mrs. Mary T. Higgins, Mrs. Nancy Ferguson and Mrs. 
Frances A. Curtiss, all advanced in years, but each with many a busy 
thought concerning the interests of the Kingdom of their Lord in 
this fallen world of ours. Mrs. Higgins was a woman of much force 
of character, a lover of God's word and intelligent in its study and 
use, and never absent willingly from the worship of the sanctuary. 
Mrs. Ferguson, too, witnessed a like good confession, and won the 
affectionate regard of all who knew her as they took note of her 
blameless walk and her whole-hearted devotion to every duty. Mrs. 
Curtiss had spent all the years of her active life as the wife of a home 
missionary pastor, and in the evening of her days was still alert and 
active in doing good in a multitude of quiet ways. The poor will 
sadly miss her words of comfort and her kindly ministries of help, 
and many a toiler in God's wide field of the world will lose something 
of power and endurance because this good woman's prayers have 
ceased to marshal themselves in daily procession before His throne 
that strength and grace may be given them — unless, indeed, with 
greater importunity they are poured forth in the very presence and 
audience chamber of the King. 

The last name upon the list of our departed members for the 
present year is that of Mr. Abram L. Stebbins. He was a man of 
approved integrity and genuine worth, who had filled many positions 
of large responsibility with a fidelity that honored his Christian 
profession. He left behind him that good name that is rather to be 
chosen than great riches. 

There remains to mention the names of three of our friends who, 
while not enrolled among our members, were attached to us by ties of 
peculiar strength. Mr. Horace F. Walker, who died at Honolulu in 
the early part of the year, whither he had gone in a vain search for 
relief, was born and reared in our communion. He early went away 
in the prosecution of his studies and from these he stepped out at 
once into the busy world to meet its duties and demands. He was a 
young man of unusual talents and remarkable proficiency, cut down 
on the very threshold of what promised to be a brilliant career, after a 
prolonged and pathetic struggle with disease, whose steady progress 



134 THROUGH FIFTY YEARS. 

neither medical skill nor the most devoted affection could either 
arrest or avert. His body was brought back by the sister who had 
been his faithful companion and rests in our midst. 

In the very prime of a life already full of manifold usefulness and 
the promise of yet larger achievement, Mr. Henry A. Chaney and Mr. 
Charles K. Backus, in midsummer, followed quickly one after the 
other into the unseen world, called in each instance so unexpectedly 
that we were stunned with the suddenness of the visitation. With 
exalted ideals of life ; abounding in noble impulses and responsive to 
the best spirit of our time ; increasingly reverent and thoughtful 
students of God's word and providences, and with a steadily enlarging 
recognition of His immanence in the mighty march of events 
constantly transpiring before our eyes ; their early going from us 
records a loss that reaches far beyond the limits of this parish, and 
extends into the domain of the highest and most valuable citizenship. 
Remembering their strong regard for each other, as well as the 
striking similarity of their aims, their aspirations and the deepening 
sense of responsibility that grew upon them alike with the advancing 
years, David's lament over Saul and Jonathan may fittingly be applied 
to them : " They were lovely and pleasant in their lives and in their 
death they were not divided." Associated with both of them for years 
in professional labors, and learning to prize them for their nobility of 
character and their generous hearts, I confess it had been among the 
day dreams that sometimes flit through my vagrant thought that, one 
day, when I had gone on my returnless way, these two friends might 
speak a kindly word for me — and I think they would have done it. 
Alas for my vanished hope, and that, in some poor sort, I am called 
upon to render a like service for them ! 



The roll-call of our promoted ones from the fellowship of this 
church for the last quarter of a century, is ended. As their names 
have been pronounced, memory has been busy summoning the still 
and placid features back to life once more, and the familiar forms have 
again taken their places beside us. Is it all a figment of the fancy 
that a far larger audience is listening at the close of this address than 
when it was begun ? Were Samaria's prophet with us to unseal our 
dull and holden eyes, all the space above and around might be seen 
peopled with those who have undying interest in us but are no longer 



MEMORIAL ADDRESS. 1 35 

with us in earthly form. But there is neither seer nor open vision. 
We only know that it is well with those who have gone away from us 
and that they wait for our coming. It is for us to turn to the 
duties of the present with renewed and serious diligence, doing with 
our might what our hands find to do. 

" Fast falls the eventide " with many of us. Our tarrying cannot 
be long. And when, one by one, our ships shall swing away from the 
moorings of earth and time, and shall speed out across unknown seas to 
an unseen shore, upon its outmost verge we feel sure, there will stand 
those who were with us and of us in days that are gone, with eager 
faces and outstretched hands to bid us welcome to " the Father's 
house, where the many mansions be." 

O, friends beloved of our hearts and homes, forever enshrined in 
our affectionate remembrance, we count you not as lost — only parted 
from us a little space. We share with you these days of jubilee and 
wave you our joyful greetings. Hail, and good morrow! We shall 
meet again ! 





Rev. Henry L. Hammond 
1845-1847. 



CONCLUDING EXERCISES. 



THE closing exercises of the three days' anniversary were held on 
Monday evening, Dec. 10. Despite the fact of a stormy night, 
a large number were in attendance at the reception given in the 
chapel parlors to Rev. Drs. Kitchel, Ballard and Davis, and Mrs. Davis, 
together with Deacon and Mrs. Raymond and Mrs. Cook, the three 
surviving members of the original thirteen who constituted the church 
at its organization. A very enjoyable evening was spent in the 
exchange of congratulations and reminiscences with those who, in 
varying relations, had had so large a share in all the growth and 
activities of the church. Refreshments were served by the ladies of 
the church during the evening. 

At the same time that this program was being carried out in the 
chapel, a musical entertainment was given in the main auditorium of 
the church by the combined service of the choir and chorus and the 
Sunday school orchestra. The selections were finely rendered, and 
the whole performance was one of rare excellence. 

At the close of the services already noted, the entire congregation 
assembled in the church where, the pastor presiding, brief congrat- 
ulatory addresses of a cordial and fraternal character were made by 
the pastors of neighboring churches of the Presbyterian, Methodist, 
Baptist and Episcopal denominations, closing with one on behalf of 
the sister Congregational churches of the city. 

One pleasant bit of history was narrated by Rev. Dr. Brownson, 
speaking in behalf of the Presbyterian churches. After stating that 
on the day before, at their morning service, his people (the First Pres- 
byterian Church) had, by a unanimous and rising vote, sent to this 
church their hearty congratulations and cordial Godspeed, he continued: 
" To-day I was looking over the records of the meetings of the Session 
of the First Presbyterian Church of Detroit, and I found a record in 
which I thought you might be interested. It reads: 

Minutes of Session, December 19, 1844 (held in the old brick Session room on the 
corner of Larned street and Woodward avenue.) The following individuals were 
present: Rev. Geo. Duffield, D. D., Moderator; Eurotas P. Hastings, Horace Hallock, 
Robert Stuart, Edward Bingham and Benj. F. Larned. The following individuals, to- 
wit: William Cook and Marietta P. Cook, his wife; James G. Crane and Mary A., his 

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140 



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wife; Robert W. Warner and Caroline A., his wife; and Francis Raymond and Ruth, 
his wife; severally requested letters of dismission and recommendation to the Congre- 
gational church about to be organized in this city. These several requests were 
granted and the Clerk was directed to furnish the necessary testimonials. 

(Signed) Benj. F. Larned, Clerk. 

" I noted also," continued Dr. Brownson, "that the three surviving 
members, whom you honor here to-night, were all received into the 
First Presbyterian Church upon confession of their faith — Francis 
Raymond, May 12, 1838; Ruth Rice, Feb. 29, 1840; and Marietta P. 
Cook, Nov. 27, 1843. Of course you are a good church; you come 
from good stock." 

And so ended the first semi-centennial and the second quarter- 
centennial celebration of the organization of the "Old First." 



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CHURCH OFFICERS 
FOR THE FIRST HALF-CENTURY, 



PASTORS AND ACTING PASTORS. 

Henry L. Hammond 1 845-1 847 

Harvey D. Kitchel, D. D 1 848-1 864 

Samuel M. Freeland 1864-1866 

Addison Ballard, D. D 1 866-1 872 

Zachary Eddy, D. D 1873-1884 

William H. Davis, D. D 1884- 

DEACONS. 

Sherman S. Barnard. .1845-1881 Henry E. Bostwick. .1868-1878 

Charles Howard 1 845-1 861 Henry E. Baker 1868- 

Silas M. Holmes 1 849-1 861 George M. Lane 1874- 

Francis Raymond. .. 1856- Edwin C. Hinsdale.. 1878-1894 

Lyman Baldwin 1856-1875 Frank Milligan 1878-1881 

Charles I. Walker. . 1 861- 1865 Edward D. Jones. .. 1891- 

William Warner 1 861-1865 Allan Bourn 1 891-1892 

Charles I. Walker.. 1 866-1 895 Arthur H. Bigg, M.D.1891-1895 

Charles E. Silsbee..i 866-1 866 Thomas Donnelly. ..1892- 

Timothy L. Partridge . 1 865-68 David Ogilvie 1 894- 

DEACONESSES. 

Mrs. Mary H. Hall.. .1891-1895 Miss May C. Mallory.. . 1891- 
Mrs. Bessie G. Bourn.. 1891-1892 Miss Laura S.Adams.. ..1891- 

Mrs. Jane Smith 1891- Miss Martha L.Miller, i 891- 

Mrs. Frances C.Wright.. '91-95 Mrs. Helen A. Clark. ...1892- 
Mrs. Sadie J. Kiskadden, 1893- 

CLERK. 

Francis Raymond 1845- 

treasurers. 

Francis Raymond 1 845-1 872 

Lyman Baldwin 1872-1875 

George M. Lane 1875- 

SUNDAY SCHOOL SUPERINTENDENTS. 

Charles Howard 1 845-1 849 Robert W. King 1 866-1 868 

Oren C. Thompson. .. .1849-1 851 Henry E. Bostwick... 1 868-1 878 

Charles S. Cushing.. .1851-1855 George M. Lane 1878-1880 

Henry E. Baker 1855-1860 Allan Bourn 1880-1887 

Robert W. King 1 860-1864 John Davis 1887-1891 

Edwin C. Hinsdale.. .1864-1 866 W. H. Strong 1891- 



SOCIETY OFFICERS 
FOR THE FIRST HALF-CENTURY. 



When Elected. TRUSTEES. 

Nov. 25, 1844 — E. Tyler, L. Baldwin (one year); Israel Coe, F. 
Raymond (two years); Charles G. Hammond 
(three years). 
845 — L. Baldwin, E. K. Gilbert. 

—Israel Coe, F. Raymond. 
847— Reuben Town, H. T. Backus. 

\ — L. Baldwin, S. S. Barnard. 
849 — George F. Porter, F. Raymond. 
850 — William A. Butler. 
851 — Sereno C. Hammond, S. S. Barnard. 
852— George F. Porter, F. Raymond. 
853 — William A. Butler. 

854 — S. S. Barnard, S. M. Holmes, T. K. Adams. 
855 — F. Raymond, T. K. Adams. 
856 — William A. Butler. 
857 — S. S. Barnard, S. M. Holmes. 
858— T. K. Adams, C. I. Walker. 
859— William A. Butler. 
860 — S. S. Barnard, William Warner. 
861— C. I. Walker, R. W. King. 
862 — William A. Butler. 
863— S. S. Barnard, Philo Parsons. 
864— C. I. Walker, R. W. King. 
865 — William A. Butler. 
866— S. S. Barnard, W. W. Wheaton. 
867 — C. I. Walker, Newell Avery, Philo Parsons. 
868 — William A. Butler, Simeon Folsom. 
869— C. I. Walker, Philo Parsons. 
870 — Charles A. Kent. 
871 — D. M. Richardson, Newell Avery. 
872— Simeon Folsom, Philo Parsons. 
873 — Robert J. Hackett. 
874— D. M. Richardson, Newell Avery. 
875 — Abiram Parker, C. J. Whitney. 
876 — Robert J. Hackett. 



Dec. 


15, 1 


Nov. 


9> 1 


Dec. 


14, 1 


Dec. 


11, 1 


Dec. 


17, 1 


Dec. 


16, 1 


Dec. 


8, 1 


Dec. 


14, 1 


Dec. 


19, 1 


Dec. 


18, 1 


Dec. 


10, 1 


Dec. 


15, 1 


Dec. 


21, 1 


Dec. 


20, 1 


Dec. 


12, 1 


Dec. 


i/> 1 


Dec. 


16, 1 


Dec. 


22, 1 


Dec. 


14, 1 


Dec. 


12, 1 


Dec. 


18, 1 


Dec. 


17, 1 


Dec. 


16, 1 


Dec. 


21, 1 


Dec. 


23, 1 


Dec. 


23> 1 


Dec. 


23, 1 


Dec. 


23, 1 


Dec. 


23, 1 


Dec. 


23, 1 


Dec. 


23, I 


Dec. 


23, I 



SOCIETY OFFICERS. 143 

When Elected. Trustees — Contintied. 

Dec. 23, 1877 — D. M. Richardson, C. A. Kent. 

Dec. 16, 1878 — A. Parker, C. J. Whitney. 

May 19, 1879 — P- Parsons, Allan Bourn (to fill vacancies). 

Dec. 8, 1879 — Philo Parsons. 

Dec. 13, 1880— E. T. Gilbert, J. K. Burnham, Geo. R. Angell. 

Dec. 12, 1 88 1 — D. R. Shaw, A. L. Stebbins. 

Dec. 16, 1882 — Philo Parsons. 

Dec. 17, 1883 — J- K. Burnham, Geo. R. Angell. 

Dec. 8, 1884— D. R. Shaw, A. L. Stebbins. 

Dec. 7, 1885 — Philo Parsons. 

Dec. 13, 1886 — J. K. Burnham, George R. Angell. 

Dec. 12, 1887 — D. M. Richardson, Ford H. Rogers. 

Dec. 10, 1888 — F. C. Pingree, A. L. Stebbins. 

Dec. 19, 1889 — Geo. R. Angell, A. L. Stebbins, E. D. Jones, 

W. H. Strong. 

Dec. 8, 1890— E. D. Jones, W. H. Strong. 

Oct. 8, 1891 — Fred. C. Stoepel. 

Jan. 11, 1892— F. C. Pingree, Edmund Hall, E. K. Potter. 

(The number of trustees increased from five to seven.) 

Jan. 9, 1893 — Geo. R. Angell, F. C. Stoepel. 
Jan. 8, 1894 — E. D. Jones, Ford H. Rogers. 

CLERKS. 

Francis Raymond 1844-1872 

George M. Lane 1872-1879 

Edwin C. Hinsdale 1879-1888 

Francis Raymond 1888-1892 

Henry E. Baker 1892- 

treasurers. 

Francis Raymond 1844-1872 

Edwin C. Hinsdale 1872-1888 

Francis Raymond 1888-1892 

Henry E. Baker 1892- 




Group of all the Installed Pastors in 1891. 



LIST OF MEMBERS 

OF THE 

FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH. 



[844-1894. 



Abell, Ida May, '77. 
Acker, Samuel, '55. 
Acker, Mrs. Betsey A., '55. 
Ackerman, Mrs. Martha F. 
Adams, Mrs. Nancy, '50. 
Adams, Laura, '50. 
Adams, Herbert C, '51. 
Adams, Josiah, '52. 
Adams, Thomas K., '58. 
Adams, Mrs. Sarah F., '55. 
Adams, Isabella, '65. 
Adams, Laura S., '65. 
Adams, Edward T., '80. 
Adams, William D., '69. 
Adams, Mrs. EllaE., '74. 
Adams, Eva Belle, '91. 
Adams, John B., '91. 
Adams, Mrs. Caroline E 
Adams, Charles F., '70. 
Adams, Charles E., '93. 
Adams, Mrs. Frances J., 
Adams, Harriet L., '93. 
Albright, Leila R., '91. 
Alden, John M., '59. 
Alden, Mrs. Augusta M. 
Alpord, Martin L., '73. 
Alford, Mrs. Mary H. , '73. 
Allen, Richard, '47. 
Allen, Mrs. Jane, '53. 
Allen, Ellen, '66. 
Allen, Ephraim W., '77. 
Allendyce, Margaret, '69. 
Ames, Wm. P., '92. 
Ames, Mrs. Evangeline R., 
Ames, Ernest R. , '92. 
Ames, Maria T., '92. 



'57. 



'63. 



'93. 



'59. 



92. 



Andrews, George P., '69. 
Andrews, Mrs. Sarah G. , '69. 
Andrews, Mrs. Elizabeth M., '74. 
Angell, George R., '87. 
Angell, George H., '87. 
Angell, Mabel J., '91. 
Archer, Wm. C.,'89. 
Armstrong, Mrs. Anna H., '57. 
Arnold, Henry, '56. 
Arnold, Mrs. Winifred, '56. 
Arnold, Mary, '58. 
Arnold, Edward G., '87. 
Ashley, Mrs. Polly, '71. 
Ashley, Edward H., '70. 
Ashwell, Horace W., '92. 
Ashwell, M. Blanche C, '92. 
Atkinson, Hector J., '77. 
Atwood, H. S., '52. 
Atwood, Mrs. Mary L., '51. 
Augur, Edmund F., '93. 
Augur, Mrs. Ella V., '93. 
Austin, Mrs. Cynthia T., '61. 
Austin, Mary H., '61. 
Austin, Joseph H. '61. 
Austin, Hamilton A., '78. 
Avery, Wm. T. , '46. 

Avery, Mrs. Olivia M., '46. 

(Mrs. Sutherland.; 
Avery, Mrs. Helen Mary, '56. 
Avery, Newell, '74. 
Avery, Mrs. Nancy, '74. 
Avery, Clara, '74. 
Avery, Nancy M., '77. 

(Mrs. H. W. Skinner.) 
Avery, Nellie, '77. 

(Mrs. W. W. Augur.) 

Avery, Mrs. Elida C, '80. 



Backus, Mrs. Juliana T., '48. 
Bacon, Nathaniel P., '85. 
Bacon, Elbridge F., '92. 



147 



Bacon, Mrs. Clarena W., '92. 
Bailey, Joseph C, '45. 
Bailey, Mrs. Ann, '45. 



148 



THROUGH FIFTY YEARS. 



Baird, Ellen A, '58. 
Baker, Henry E., '56. 
Baker, Mrs. Emily P., '56. 
Baker, Charles H., '71. 
Baker, Abby D., '74. 
Baker, Henry S., '65. 
Baldwin, Lyman, '44. 
Baldwin, Mrs. Mancy, '44. 
Baldwin, Celia M., '46. 

(Mrs. B. Rush Bagg.) 

Baldwin, Frances E. , '52 

(Mrs. J. E. Beebe.) 

Baldwin, John A. , '65. 
Ballard, Addison, '66. 
Ballard, Mrs. Julia P., '66. 
Bannister, Frank, '74. 
Banta, George D., '94. 
Barber, Mrs. Eyalena E., '79. 
Barber, Mary S., '79. 
Barley, Arthur E., '74. 
Barley, Fanny, '81. 
Barnard, Sherman S., '44. 
Barnard, Mrs. Mary J., '45. 
Barnard, Abby, '51. 

(Mrs. R. J. Hackett.) 

Barnard, John Q., '51. 
Barnard, Mary, '51. 

(Mrs. E. M. Clark ) 

Barnard, Emma L., '58. 

(Mrs. M. L. Smith.) 

Barnard, Fanny H., '80. 

(Mrs. C. S. Pierce.) 
Barnes, A. A., '87, 
Barnes, Samuel N., '87. 
Barnum. Minerva, '48. 

(Mrs. T. L. Partridge.) 

Barnum, Edwin W., '56. 
Barnum, Mrs. Mary E, '56. 
Barnum, Lucretia S., '60. 
Barrett, Charles H., '58. 
Barrows, Stephen S., '50. 
Barrows, Mrs. Lurania, '50. 
Bartley, Mary E., '55. 
Bartley, Sarah E., '55. 
Batchelder, John L. , '84. 
Batchelder, Mrs. Rachel M. , '84. 
Bates, Catherine, '46. 
Bates, Mrs. Eunice E., '52. 
Bates, Mrs. Jane, '55. 
Bates, Joanna, '65. 

(Mrs. Amos Sutton.) 



Bates, Frederick D., '63. 
Bates, George B., '86. 
Bates, Mrs. Ann E., '86. 
Bates, Henry C, '86. 
Bates, Helen C , '86. 
Bates, Alfred F., '93. 
Bathers, Anna C, '74. 
Bathers, Sophia E., '74. 
Beach, Mary N., '52. 
Beach, Mrs. Mary H., '70. 
Beard, Robert R., '65. 
Beard, Catherine, '74. 
Beaton, Angus, '80. 
Beaton, Mrs. Emily, '79. 
Beattie, Robert, '51. 
Beattie, Mrs. Martha, '56. 
Beattie, Margaret, '56. 
Beattie, Eliza, '58. 
Beattie, Martha, '62. 
Beck, Charles L., '75. 
Beebe, Mary, '48. 

(Mrs. Clark.) 

Beebe, John E., '53. 
Beebe, Mrs. Abigail, '62. 
Beecher, Mrs. Mary, '57. 
Beeker, Maria L. , '69. 
Beekman, John G., '71. 
Beekman, Mrs. Susan, '71. 
Belknap, Eva J. , '74. 

(Mrs. Edward H. Ashley.) 

Bell, Daniel P., '58. 
Bell, Mrs. Clarissa E., '58. 
Bell, Laura, '94. 
Bellows, Mrs. Jane A., '65. 
Benedict, Fletcher, '74. 
Benedict, Mrs. Renew, '74. 
Bennett, James L., '77. 
Bigelow, Joseph E. , '56. 
Bigelow, Mrs. Mary G., '56. 
Bigelow, Charles P., '65. 
Bigg, Arthur H., '77. 
Bigg, Mrs. Adaline E., '77. 
Bigg, Ellen J., '85. 
Bigler, Frank S., '90. 
Bilby, Ella E., '86. 
Bishop, Wm. Warner, '87. 
Bishop, Elizabeth L., '87. 
Bishop, Helen L. , '90 
Bishop, Mrs. Sybil P., '94. 



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149 



Bissell, Mary S., '51. 
Bissell, Mrs. Melesent W. , '46. 
Bissell, Henrietta A., '71. 
Bissell, Roman A., '71. 
Black, Catherine S., '48. 
Blackader, John W., '48. 
Blackader, Mrs. Martha, '59. 
Blackader, Henry H., '77. 
Blackader, Elizabeth M., '90. 
Blackman, Francis H., '82. 
Blackman, Mrs. Ida M., '82. 
Blackman, Maud J., '91. 
Blackwood, William, '91. 
Blackwood, Margaret, '94. 
Blaikie, Thomas R. , '75. 
Blaikie, Mrs. Margaret B., '75. 
Blakewell, George D., '90. 
Blakewell, Mrs. Pauline V., '90. 
Blakewell, Mary E., '90. 
Blanchard, Addison, '89. 
Blanchard, Mrs. Abby G., '89. 
Bliss, William S., '57. 
Bliss, Mrs. Frances H., '59. 
Bliss, Lucy, '58. 
Bliss, Mrs. Mary E., '91. 
Blodgett, Sarah E., '76. 
Bobzin, Charles, '94. 
Bobzin, Mrs. Caroline E. , '92. 
Bobzin, Louise, '94. 
Bochman, Mrs. Hester, '52. 
Booth, Edmund W., '89. 
Booth, Mrs. Mollie S., '89. 
Bostwick, Henry E. , '55. 
Bostwick, Mrs. SormA A., '61. 
Bostwick, Frank F., '71. 
Bourn, Allan, '75. 
Bourn, Mrs. Bessie G., '75. 
Bourn, Fred. A., '89. 
Bourn, Annie C, '91. 
Bourn, William G., '91. 
Bow, Mrs. Isabella, '76. 
Bow, Isabella, '76. 

(Mrs. Davis.) 

Bow, Kate, '76. 

(Mrs. Hunter.) 

Bowen, Mrs. Hannah, '74. 
Bowring, Kate S., '78. 

(Mrs. J. L. Wakely.) 

Bowring, Maria L., '78. 
(Mrs. C. L. Gill.) 



Bowring, W. Palmer, '80. 

Boyd, Robert W., '57. 

Brace, Curtis D., '91. 

Brace, Mrs. Huldah, '91. 

Brace, Charles, '91. 

Brace, Nellie B., '91. 

Brackett, Ernest R., '88. 

Bradley, Matilda, '56. 

Bradley, Mrs. Charles, '58. 

Bradley, Artie M., '58. 

Bradley, Jddson, '74. 

Bradley, Mrs. Ellen M. , '74. 

Bradner, Addie S., '55. 
(Mrs. C. D. Palmer.) 

Braman. Cynthia, '51. 

(Mrs. Rockwood.) 

Breck, Angelina S., '56. 

(Mrs. Andrews.) 

Breshna, Jennie, '80. 
Bridgman, Mrs. Charlotte J., 
Bridgman, Edgar C, '80. 
Bridgman, Marie Louise, '80. 

(Mrs., W. R. Dodsley.) 

Broas, Mrs. Mary C. , '85. 
Bronson, Wm. H. '55. 
Bronson, Mrs. Laura L., '57. 
Bronson, Mrs. Mary, '57. 
Brooks, Mrs. Caroline, '57. 
Brooks, Margaret, '68. 
Brooks, Mary, '68. 

(Mrs. W. D. Morton.) 

Brown, Emma, '48. 
Brown, Emily, '49. 
Brown, Mrs. Maria E., '52. 
Brown, Mrs. Sarah, '57. 
Brown, Sylvia, '65. 
Brown, Anselm R., '80. 
Brown, Mrs. Anna R., '94. 
Brundage, Harvey, '57. 
Brush, Amanda, '46. 

(Mrs. Grant.) 

Brush, Henry T., '77. 

Brush, Mrs. Charlotte G. , '76. 

(Mrs. J. M. Donaldson.) 

Brush, Frederick F., '94. 
Brydon, Margaret A., '77. 
Brydon, Mary J., '77. 

(Mrs. James Walker.) 

Brydon, Mrs. Sarah, '80. 
Buffum, Joshua, '50. 
Bufpum, Mrs. RuthH., '50. 



i5o 



THROUGH FIFTY YEARS. 



Bull, Mrs. Adaline, '45. 
Bull, Mrs. Mary, '54. 
Burgess, Henry A., '55. 
Burgess, Mrs. Julia E., '55. 
Burgess, Mrs. Mary P., '55. 
Burgess, Sadie E., '94. 
Burnell, Mrs Emily J., '47. 

(Mrs. Levi Dolsen.) 

Burnell, Elizabeth E., '58. 

(.Mrs. Theo. Wood.) 

Burnham, James K., '80. 
Burnham, Mrs. Ella, '71. 
Burnham, Edith B., '80. 

(Mrs. Rice Miner.) 

Burnham, Jessie E., '80. 
Burnham. Grace M., '89. 

(Mrs. Rollins Hockaday.) 

Burnham, Clara A , '89. 
Burns, John T., '94. 



Burns, Mrs. Sarah M., '94. 
Burr, Wm. H. ; '65. 
Burr, Harry II., '93. 
Burr, Mrs. Nellie L., '93. 
Burroughs, Louisa L., '65. 
Burt, Effie M., '92. 
Burt Elsie N., '92. 
Bushnell, Mrs. Hannah H., '49. 
Butler, Mrs. Hannah, '63. 
Butler, EmmaM., '65. 
Butler, Charles W., '65. 
Butler, Mrs. Della, '87. 
butterfield, mrs. harriet a., '58. 
butterfield, satilla g., '74. 

(Mrs. F. T. Moran.) 
BUTTERFIELD, LOLA A. , '82. 

(Mrs. Hibbard Baker.) 
BUTTERFIELD, EUGENIA W., '82. 

(Mrs. F. H. Webster.) 



Cady, Calvin B., '79. 
Cady, Mrs. Josephine, '80. 
Cady, Charles G., '90. 
Campbell, Maria, '48. 
Campbell, Maria T., '51. 
Campbell, Mrs. Margaret, '83. 
Capper, Mrs. Emma, '93. 
Capper, Jessie M., '93. 
Carew, Charlotte, '69. 
Carey, Mrs. Sarah E., '68. 
Carey, Alice A., '68. 
Carlisle, Frederick, '61. 
Carlisle, Mrs. Charlotte, '61. 
Carlisle, Ida A., '74. 
Carlisle, Ruth, '92. 
Carpenter, J. H., '49. 
Carpenter, Mrs. Alida, '51. 
Carpenter, Mrs. Elizabeth E. 
Carr, Mrs. Harriett K., '94. 
Carrier, Mrs. Frances M., '59. 
Carrier, Albert E., '65. 

Carrier, Mary E., '65. 

(Mrs. N. Terry Taylor.) 

Carter, Mary J., '73. 
Carter, Mrs. Fannie F. , '87. 
Carver, David, '56. 
Carver, Mrs. Jane T., '56. 
Carver, Enoch, '74. 
Carver, Mrs. Sarah J. , '74. 



Carver, Mary F., '85. 

(Mrs. Walter Clee.) 

Case, Mrs. Caroline M., '58. 
Case, Sydney E., '58. 
Case, Marcia L. C, '58. 

(Mrs. Geo. L. G. Sutherland.) 

Case, Sarah W., '76. 
Case, Mrs. A. P., '93. 
Case, Agnes M., '93. 
Case, Wm. W., '93. 
Casey, Mrs. Delucia F., '93. 
Chaffin, Patience B., '48. 
Chaffin, George H., '88. 
Chamberlin, Mrs. Eliza W., '87. 
Chamberlin, Fred. W., '87. 
Chamberlin, Erastus H., '93. 
Chamberlin, Mrs. Sophia M., '93. 
Chamberlin, Albert D., '93. 
'93. Chambers, Joseph, '89. 

Chambers, Mrs. Ida F. , '89. 
Chaney, Lucian C, '62. 
Chase, John A., '50. 
Chatfield, Walter S., '82. 
Chatfield, Mrs. Bessie C, '82. 
Cheyne, George, '65 
Chilson, Ruth M., '74. 

(Mrs. C. W. Price.) 

Chittick, William R., '90. 
Choate, Mrs. Ann, '93. 
Christie, Joseph, '45. 



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151 



Christie, Mrs. Judith, '45. 

Chubb, O. P., '56. 

Chubb, Mrs. S. E., '56. 

Church, Philetus S. , '44. 

Church, Mrs. Elizabeth D., '44. 

Clapp, Samuel, '56. 

Clapp, Mrs. Hannah H., '56. 

Clark, Edwin M., '55. 

Clark, Jennie H. , '74. 

Clark, Mrs. Lydia M., '56. 

Clark, MartE., '57. 

Clark, Mrs. Susan A., '58. 

Clark, Lucia F., '74. 
(Mrs. Wm. Duncan.) 

Clark, Elizabeth, '85. 

Clark, Mrs. Eliza D., '63. 

Clark, Florence, '67. 

(Mrs. W. O. Ashley ) 

Clark, Marietta L. , '64. 
Clark, Gardiner K., '65. 
Clark, George EL, '66. 
Clark, James, '67. 
Clark, Mrs. Nancy, '67. 
Clark, Mrs. Olive J., '69. 
Clark, Elizabeth, '70. 
Clark, Mrs. Almira E., '73. 
Clark, Alice E., '73. 
Clark, Maria F., '73. 

(Mrs. E. L. Dimock.) 
Clark, Mrs. Azuba, '74. 
Clark, Franklin E., '74. 
Clark, May E., '90. 
Clark, Lewis B., '80. 
Clark, Mrs. Marion J., '80. 
Clark, Mrs. Helen A., '91. 
Clarkson, Mrs. Mary A., '82. 

Clarkson, Harriet M., '80. 

(Mrs Silas Seefred ) 
Clough, Mrs. Eliza A., '58. 
Cobb, E. William, '85. 
Cobb, Mrs. Julia C, '80. 
Cobb, Mrs. Margaret L., '94. 
Cochrane, Sarah A., '66. 
Coe, Israel, '45. 
Coe, Mrs. Huldah, '45. 

Coe, Cornelia, '46. 

(Mrs. Israel Holmes.) 
Coe, Sarah M., '48. 

(Mrs. J. Hibbard.) 

Coe, Adelaide E., '48. 



Coit, Samuel, '45. 
Coit, Mrs. Mary E., '45. 
Coit, Mary R., '67. 

(Mrs. A. W. Day.) 

Colburn, Wm. B., '68. 

Colburn, Mrs. Betsey M., '68. 

Cole, Alex R., '94. 

Colman, Abby, '86. 
(Mrs. Fred. Hancock.) 

Coleman, Herbert H., '86. 
Colwell, Mrs. M. L., '69. 
Common, George, '48. 
Common, Mrs. Jane, '48. 
Conant, John H., '77. 
Conant, Mrs. Lucia M., '77. 
Concklin, Mrs. Anna, '51. 

(Mrs. S. Clements.) 

Congdon, Mrs. Emmeline F., '76. 

Connor, Leartus, '74. 

Connor, Mrs. AnnaD., '74. 

Cook, William, '44. 

Cook, Mrs. Marietta P., '44. 

Cook, Celestia A., '55. 
(Mrs. Ezra Haskell.) 

Cook, Mrs. Ann, '50. 
Cook, Mrs. Mary A., '69. 
Cook, CeliaM., '74. 
Cook, James^L, '74. 
Cook, Elizabeth, '74. 
Coolidge, Evelina S., '80. 
Cooper, Ellen E , '61. 
Cooper, David M., '71. 
Cooper, Mrs. Lizzie, '74. 
Corey, Mrs. Eliza J., '94. 
Corey, Nettie R., '94. 
Cotner, Jacob, Jr., '90. 
Cotner, Mrs. Etta T., '90. 
Cowell, Wm T., '91. 
Cowles, Rhoda, '44. 
Crafts, Myron H., '58 
Craig, Jane E., '57. 
Craig, Mrs. Phidelia A., '58. 
Craig, Wm. J., '71. 
Crane, James G., '44. 
Crane, Mrs. Mary A., '44. 
Crane, Louisa M., '45. 

(Mrs. Praigg.) 

Crawford, Henry S., '86. 
Crawford, Mrs. Eliza S., '86. 



152 



THROUGH FIFTY YEARS. 



Crawford, E. Chauncey, '88. 
Crawford, Henry S., Jr. '91. 
Crooks, L. Stearns, '74. 
Crooks, Carolina A., '75. 
Crosman, Mrs. Lucy, '59. 
Crosman, Charles, '51. 
Crosman, Martha, '58. 
Crosman, Caroline L., '58. 
Crosman, Rufus N., '80. 
Crowell, E. H., '94. 
Crowell, Nina L., '94. 
Cumming, Clara, '94. 
Curtis, Lewis M., '63. 
Curtis, Mrs. Charlotte S., '63. 



Curtis, Mrs. Ellen M., '94. 
Curtiss, Charles H. , '57. 
Curtiss, Mbs. Frances E., '74. 
Curtiss, Bessie M., '85. 
Curtiss, Fanny E., '87. 
Curtiss, Mrs Frances A., '90. 
Curtiss, Edward C, '80. 
Curtiss, Harriet L. , '90. 
Cushing, Charles 8^ '47. 
Cushing, Mrs. Martha, '47. 
Cushing, Ltzzie S., '65. 

(Mrs. J. F. Henderson.) 

Cutter, Charles E., '92. 
Cutter, Mrs. Emma M., '92. 



Dallas, Margaret M. , '89. 

(Mrs. J. W. Kelsey.) 
Dallas, Jessie A.. '89. 
Dallas, Katherine L., '93. 
Damai, Cornelius, '55. 
Damai, Mrs. Sarah, '55. 
Daniels, Wm. B., '93. 
Davidson, Mrs. Ellen, '58. 
Davidson, Wm. J., '92. 
Davis, Wm. W., '51. 
Davis, Mrs. Nancy, '51. 
Davis, Samuel, '55. 
Davis, Mrs. Caroline, '55. 
Davis, Mrs. Mary, '67. 
Davis, Elizabeth, '78. 
Davis, D. L., '78. 
Davis, Mrs. Margaret E., '78. 
Davis, Wm H., '84. 
Davis, Mrs. Emma P. , '84. 
Davis, Robert M., '94. 
Davis, John, '86. 
Davis, Mrs. Emma F. , '86. 
Davis, John Folger, '91. 
Davis, Emerson, '93. 
Davis, Mrs. EvaR., '94 
Davis, Llora La V. , '87. 
Davis, George B., '91. 
Davis, Grace M., '94. 
De Baptiste, Mrs. Clara L. , '94. 
Deering, George D., '74. 
Deering, Mrs. Emma J., '74. 
Despard, Elliott H., '80. 
Dickinson, Emma Z., '78. 



Dillman, Mrs. Ira, '62. 
Dimmick, Mrs. Electa, '51. 
Doane, George H., '78. 
Doane, Mrs. ViolettaM., '78. 
Doane, Clara L., '78. 
Dolson, Lura, '65. 

(Mrs. S. W. Parsons.) 

Doolittle, Mrs. Jennie, '80. 
Doolittle, Laura F., '77. 

(Mrs. G. W. Radford.) 

Doolittle, Hattie P., '80. 

Donaldson, Agnes, '47. 

Donaldson, Robert S , '94. 

Donnelly, Thomas, '91. 

Donnelly, Mrs. Mary E , '91. 

Donnelly, May L., '91. 
(Mrs. A. W. Beidler.) 

Donnelly, Frederick W., '91. 
Donnelly, Lillian G., '91. 
Doremus, Mrs. Harriet J., '53. 
Doremus, Wm. T. , '55. 
Dorte, Mary, '47. 
Douglass, Mrs. Harriet E., '82. 
Douglass, Alice T., '91. 
Dow, Marcus A., '93. 
Draper, Mrs. Maria L., '51. 
Dudley, E. G., '92. 
Dudley, Mrs. Mary, '92. 
Duncan, Louisa, '59. 
Duncan, Mrs. Harriet S., '65. 
Duncklee, Wm. S., '50. 
Duncklee, Mrs. Lydia L., '50. 
Duncklee, Hubbard H., '51. 
Duncklee, Mrs. Mary C, '49. 



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153 



Dungey, Edward, '94. 
Dungey, Mrs. Sarah A., 
Dungey, Elizabeth, '92. 
Durand, Mrs. Emily M., 
Durand, Emma C, '67. 
Durand, Mary E., '74. 



'94. 



'67. 



Durand, Mrs. Marton A., '94. 
Durand, Florence M., '91. 
Durand, Harvey S., '93. 
D wight, Mrs. Phcebe, '49. 
Dwight, Miriam, '50 
Dyer, Charles E., '77. 



Dyer, Mrs. Mary C. '77. 



Earl, John H., '75. 
Earl, Mrs. Annie, '75. 
Eason, Lottie, '80. 
Eckliff, Alice B., '94. 
Eddy, Zachary, '73. 
Eddy, Mrs. Malvina R., '73. 
Eddy, Mrs. Frances M. , '90. 
Eddy, Edith M., '73. 

(Mrs. A. B. Lyons.) 

Eddy, Mary D , '73. 
(Mrs. Leonard Treat.) 

Eddy, Alice M., '73. 
(Mrs. E. C. Curtiss.) 

Eddy, Frank W , '74. 

Eddy, Fanny F., '74. 
(Mrs. E. E. Brown.) 

Eddy, Charles W., '80. 

Edgar, William, '85. 

Edgar, Mrs. Margaret, '84. 

Edson, Mrs. Louisa M., '91. 

Edwards, Wm. R , '47. 

Edwards, Mary P. L., '58. 
(Mrs. G. M. Lane.) 

Edwards, Mrs. Elinor, '57. 



Edwards, Elizabeth, '58. 
Edwards, Catherine, '64. 
Edwards, David, '65. 
Edwards, Marianne, '65. 
Edwards, Wm. G., '70. 
Edwards, Mrs. Emmeline, '70. 
Edwards, Henry D., '75. 

Edwards, Mrs Sarah, '75. 

(Mrs. F. R. Aldrich.) 
Edwards, Byron H., '94. 
Edwards, Mrs. Grace L., '94. 
Ellis, Mrs. Claribel, '84. 
Ellis, Lulu P. M., '84. 

(Mrs. Gillott) 

Elmore, Mrs. Almira, '59. 

(Mrs. David Fleming ) 

Empson, E. Raymond, '94. 
Ensign, Mrs. Jennie G., '75. 

ESTERBROOK, MRS. MARY, '73. 
ESTERBROOK, MARY J., '74. 

Euvrard, Eugene T. , '90. 
Everett, Amelia, '49. 
Everett, Jane, '49. 
Ewing, Samuel, '71. 



Farrand, Reoda C, '50. 

(Mrs. Theo. Hunter.) 
Farrand, Bethuel C, '57. 
Farrand, Mrs. Helen A., '57. 
Farrell, Mrs. Catherine H. 
Farrell, Thomas, '59. 
Farrell, Catherine, '62. 

(Mrs. E. A. Urch.) 

Ferguson, Sarah, '48. 
Ferguson, Eralsey, '92. 
Ferguson, Mrs. Nancy, '92 
Ferguson, Josephine E., '77. 
Ferguson, Fanny L., '80. 

(Mrs. H. S. Jenkinson.) 

Ferguson, John G., '94. 
Ferguson, Mrs. Myra J. , '92. 
Ferry, Mrs. Fanny B., '66. 



'59. 



Fields, Mrs. E. J., '85. 
Fillans, Mrs. Wilhelmina, '74. 
Fillans, Mrs Jane W., '78. 
Fisher Mrs. Catherine, '45. 
Fisher, Mary, '47. 
Fisher, Mrs. Esther, '50. 
Fisher, Galen M., '53. 
Fisher, Mrs. Susan, '53. 
Fisher, Sarah T. E., '76. 
Fisher, Mrs. Margaret, '79. 
Fisher, Marie L , '82. 
Fisk, Henry L., '84. 
Fitch, E. D., '52. 
Fitch, Mrs. Elizabeth A., '55. 
Fitzgerald, Lottie, '74. 
Fletcher, Mrs. Margaret, '83. 



154 



THROUGH FIFTY YEARS. 



Fletcher, Lizzie M., '85. 

(Mrs. C. I. Farrell ) 

Fletcher, Florence M., '86. 

(Mrs. W. G. L. Cheseborough.) 

Florence, Mary A., '62. 

Flowers, Mrs., '55. 

Folsom, Sarah A. , '55. 
(Mrs. George L. Field.) 

Folsom, Eliza, '74. 
Foote, Mrs. Phoebe D., '48. 
Ford, Mrs. Lou B., '94. 
Ford, Walter. '94. 
Foster, Mrs. Mary, '64. 
Foster, Mrs. Henrietta, '64. 
Fowler, Stephen, '46. 
Fox, Charles E., '75. 

Fuller, 



Fox, Mrs. Emma A., '77. 
Fox, Mrs. Jennie W., '91. 
Franklin, Wm. Geo., '92. 
Franklin, Mrs Jane, '92. 
Freeland, Samuel M., '65. 
Freeland, Mrs. Elizabeth L., '65. 
Freer, Carrie F , '85. 
Freligh, Mary E., '75. 
Frost, Mahlon S., '48. 
Frothingham, Mrs. Lucy E., '93. 

Fuller, Amelia, '62. 

(Mrs. D. C. Calkins.) 

Fuller, John D , '70. 
Fuller, Mrs. Eveline, '70. 
Fuller, John J., '70. 
Mrs. Harriet M., '79. 



Gardiner, Margaretta M., '45. 
Gartner, Mrs. Metta B., '94. 
Gaylord, Mrs. Emma A., '80. 
Geer, Mrs. Rosetta, '65. 
Geiger, Mrs. Rose E., '77. 
Geiger, Rose Gertrude, '91. 
Geiger, Florence E., '94. 
George, Nelson, '49. 
George, Mrs. Althea, '51. 
George, Archibald, '74. 
George, Mrs. Myra L., '90. 
George, Ezra, '74. 
Giauque, James D., '68. 
Giauque, Mrs. Bessie A. , '68. 
Gibson, Eldridge, '86. 
Gibson, Henry S., '92. 
Giekie, Walter D., '47. 
Gilbert, Mrs. Ann C, '45. 
Gilbert, George, '48. 

Gilbert, Harriet L., '45. 

(Mrs Brainard.) 
Gilbert, Marietta, '64. 

(Mrs. H. Raymond.) 
Gilbert, Edward T., '76. 
Gilbert, Mrs Eva H., '76. 
Gilbert, Mrs. Minnie J., '76. 
Gilmore, George N., '69. 
Gilmore, Mrs. Sarah, '69. 
Gilmore, Lenora S., '66. 
Girmus, Edith, '94. 
Girmus, Josephine, '94. 
Glass, Mrs. Eugenia M., '80. 



Gleason, Mrs. Amelia, '63. 
Glynn, George H., '93. 
Golding, John A., '85. 
Goodrich, James S., '77. 
Goodrich, Mrs. Clara I., '77. 
Goodwin, Mrs. Amy M., '92. 
Goodwin, Mrs. Martha E., '92. 
Gore, Mrs. Harriet L., '63. 
Gorham, Edwin T., '91. 
Gower, Arthur C, '76. 
Gower, Mrs. Clara, '76. 
Grace, William, '49. 

Graham, Eliza A., '62. 

(Mrs. Boke.) 

Graham, Ziba B., '85 
Graham, Mrs. HarriettaP., '85. 
Graham, Gertrude M., '85. 
Graham, Ziba Kent, '91. 
Granger, Hiram, 83. 
Granger, Mrs. Eliza A., '83. 
Granger, Winifred G., '83. 
Grant, Nellie, '79. 

(Mrs. F. Raymond, Jr.) 

Gray, Emily R., '59. 
Gray, Clara M., '89. 
Green, Calvin H., '47. 
Green, Mrs. Esther E., '47. 
Green, James H., '47. 
Green, George S.„ '56. 
Green, Mrs. Irene E., '56. 
Green, Nelson, '80. 
Greene, James W., '92. 



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155 



Greene, Mrs. Emma. R., '92. 
Greene, Harlow R., '92. 
Greene, Lorena V., '92. 
Greene, Ethel P. , '94. 
Gregg, Mrs. Joanna W., '82. 
Griffith, John H., '62. 
Griffith, Mrs. Ella M. , '67. 
Griffith, Jennie L., '93. 
Griffiths, John E., '85. 
Griffiths, Mrs. Ella G. , '85. 
Griggs, Stephen, '58. 
Griggs, Mrs. Hearty, '74. 
Griggs, Mary A., '74. 
Griggs, Mrs. Lucy E., '55. 



Griggs, Frances E., '65. 
Griggs, S. Lavonne, '65. 

(Mrs. Thos. Griffith.) 

Griggs, Lucy E., '78. 

(Mrs. H. Farrington.) 

Griswold. Thaddeus, '51. 
Griswold, Mrs. Cora C , '85. 
Grout, Alice, '77. 

(Mrs. H. H. Wood.) 

Grout, Mrs. Marton C, '94. 
Grout, Herbert W., '94. 
Guile, James M., '51. 
Guile, Mrs. Ann E., '51. 
Gunning, Wm. C, '55. 
Gunning, Mrs. Wm. C, '55. 



Hackett, Robert J., '70. 

Hackett, Robert J., Jr., '78. 

Hackett, Charles H., '78. 

Hackett, Walter E., '88. 

Hale, Mrs. E. J., '50. 

Hall, Mrs. Sarah, '52. 

Hall, Charles, '52. 

Hall, Mrs. Eliza, '52. 

Hall, Sarah M., '65. 
(Mrs. G. R. Angell.) 

Hall, George E., '52. 
Hall, Edmund, '58. 
Hall, Mrs. Emeline C, '58. 
Hall, Mrs. Mary, '85. 
Hall, Emma, '76. 

(Mrs. Austin.) 

Hall, Samuel, '80. 

Hall, Edith, '91. 

Hamilton, James M., '94. 

Hamilton, Mrs. Regina M. , '94. 

Hamlyn, William, '53. 

Hammond, Henry L., '44. 

Hammond, Mrs. Mary J., '44. 

Hammond, Charles G., '45. 

Hammond, Mrs. Charlotte B.,'45. 

Hammond, Sereno C, '47. 

Hammond, Mrs. Rachel J., '47. 

Hammond, Isabel T. , '65. 

Hammond, Sereno P., '65. 

Hammond, Ida, '78. 

Hanson, Stephen T. , '44. 

Hanson, Mrs. Mary J., '44. 

Hard, MaryY., '77. 
(Mrs. A. Waring.) 



Hard, Helen L., '77. 
Hardiman, Amy, '92. 

Harger, Maude, '92. 

(Mrs. Chas. Brace.) 
Harney, Mrs. Ella T., '92. 
Harper, Fred. B., '86. 
Harris, Mrs. Eliza P., '50. 
Harris, Roswell, '87. 
Harris, Charles L., '92. 
Harrison, R. W., '81. 
Hart, James, '45. 
Hart, Sarah, '46. 
Harter, Mrs. Catherine F. , '55. 
Harwood, George W., '74. 
Harwood, Mrs. Julia T., '74. 
Haskins, Mary G., '85. 
Haskins, Wm. B., '94. 
Hawes, Mrs. Harriet H., !78. 
Hawes, Alfred M., '80. 
Hawes, Mrs. Margaret A , '80. 
Hawley, Lucy A., '58. 

(Mrs. Geo. C. Adams.) 
Hawley, Caroline B., '58. 
(Mrs. Alfred Howard ) 

Hawley, John G., '74. 
Hawley, Mrs. Mary L , '74. 
Hawley, Thomas D., '74. 
Hawley, Mrs. Mary B., '74. 
Hawley, Eva E. , '77. 
Hayes, Willis B., '89. 
Haywood, J. G. 5 '85. 
Hazelton, Hiram R., '92. 
Hazelton, Mrs. Adelia, '92. 
Hazelton, Arthur D., '92. 



156 



THROUGH FIFTY YEARS. 



Hazelton, Lottie B., '92. 

Heaton, John M., '92. 

Hebbard, Chas. B., '60. 

Hegeman, Adrian G., '74. 

Hegeman, Gerard C, '74. 

Hempstead, Sarah K., '70. 
(Mrs. Alex. Hendry.) 

Hempstead, Charles A., '70. 

Henderson, Sarah, '48. 

(Mrs Hiram Benedict.) 
Henderson, John, '59 
Henderson, Mrs. Rachel, '59 
Henderson, Clara L., '65. 
Henderson, James F., '65. 
Henderson, John, '91. 
Henderson, Bruce, '93. 
Henry, Hugh, '45. 
Henry, Mrs. Loutsa, '45. 
Henry, D. Farrand, '51. 
Henry, Wm. G., '69. 
Henry, Mrs. Huldana S., '69. 

Henry, Aurelia S., '69. 
(Mrs Rev. Frank Russell.) 

Henry. Faydelia S., '69. 

Henry, Huldana, '72. 

Henry, Annie K , '91. 

Hepburn, James H., '69. 

Hepburn, Mrs Georgia, K9 

Hewitt, VI ks ary A, '76 

Hibbard, Isaiah W., 58. 

Hibbard, Mrs Irene S., '58 

Hibbard, Hannah S., '58. 

Hibbard, Irene S., '62. 
(Mrs A E. Carrier.) 

Hibbard, Augu-tineG., '79. 

Hibbard, John O., '92. 

Hibbard, Mrs. Sarah H. M., 92. 

Hickok, William H., '55. 

Higgins, Mrs MaryT., '55. 

Hill, Edward B., '85. 

Hill, Mrs Ruth D., '91. 

Hill, Grace E , '94 

Hinds, Agnes, '94 

Hinds. Emilie E., '94. 

Hinds Peter A , '94. 

Hine, Katherine G., '92. 

Hine, Ruby E., '92. 

Hinsdale, Edwin C. '60. 

Hinsdale, Mrs. Ellen J., '60. 

Hinsdale, Genevieve S., '74. 



Hinsdale, Mary C, '74. 
Hinsdill, Mrs. Charlotte, '60. 
Hitchcock, Charles W., '84. 
Hitchcock, Mrs. Eunice I., '92. 
Hitchcock, Charles J., '94. 
Hitchcock, Mrs. Julia N., '94 
Hittell, Samuel, '58. 
Hittell, Mrs. Amelia, '58. 
Hoag, H. P., '45. 
Holbrook, Hattie B., '65. 

(Mrs E. A. Norris.) 

Holden, Mrs. Ida, '87. 

Holdsworth, James, '67. 

holdsworth, mrs. e., '81. 

Hole, Mary H., '77. 

Hollywood, Mrs. Theodosia, '56. 

Holman, Elizabeth F., '50. 
(Mrs. J. M. Guile.) 

Holman, Sullivan, '56. 
Holman, Mrs. Harriet, '56. 
Holman, Harriet, '56. 

(Mrs. A. J. Weston.) 

Holmes, Silas M. , '48. 

Holmes, Mrs. Eliza, '48. 

Holmes, George W., '58. 

Holmes, Alice, '58. 
(Mrs Hobart.) 

Holmes, Mrs. Lydia, '54. 

Holmes, Jabesh, '54. 

Holmes, Mrs Emmeline W., '58. 

Holmes, Alida T., '78. 

Holmes, Maria C, '78. 

Holme-, George, '80. 

Holmes, Ross H., '93. 

Holmes, Mrs. Emma S., '74. 

Holmes, Dldleigh D., '91. 

Holmes, Ross a., Jr., '93 

Holmes, Farrand O., '93. 

Horne, Mrs. Margaret, '57. 

Horner, Louisa, '70. 
(Mrs. Donnelly.) 

Horner, Mary, '70. 

Horner, Absalom^ '90. 

Horner, Mrs. Mary A., '90. 

Horner, Georgetta J , '91. 

Horner, Gertrude M., '91. 

Hosler, Mabel A., '74. 

Hotchkiss, Edward F., '91. 

Hotchkiss, Mrs. Martha M., '91. 

Housely, George F. , '77. 



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157 



Housely, Mrs. Nellie R. , '79. 
Howard, Charles, '45. 
Howard, Mrs. Lydia, '45. 
Howard, Stephen, '47. 
Howard, John E , '47. 
Howard, Mrs. Catherine A., 
Howard, Alfred, '67. 
Howard, Fred. R., '92. 
Howe, Mrs. Sophia, '69. 
Howe, Sarah, '67. 
Howe, Mrs. Mina S., '30. 
Hoyt, Mrs. Harriet M. , '53. 
Hoyt, Edwin, Jr., '70. 
Hoyt, Mrs. Helen M. K., '70. 
Hoyt, Henry C, '76. 
Hoyt, Mrs. Susan, '76. 
Hoyt, Mrs. Emily, '82. 
Hubbell, Mrs. Kate L., '65. 
Hubbell, Clarence W., '94. 



48. 



Hudson, Mrs. Betsey B., '72. 

Hudson, Frances C. , '72. 

Hudson, Jessie, '72. 

Hume, Morse L., '94. 

Humphrey, Mary E., '77. 
(Mrs. H. A. Wales.) 

Hunt, Laura J., '77. 
Hunter, Theodore, '51. 
Hurd, Juan L., '79. 
Hurd, Mrs. Jennie A., '79. 
Hurd, Mrs. Emily F., '86. 
Hurd, Philo R., '86. 
Hurd, Mrs Mary A., '86. 
Hussey, George O., '85. 
Hussey, Mrs. George O., '85. 
Hutchins, Mrs. E. R., '87. 
Hyde, Francis L., '75. 
Hyde, Mrs. Marion E. , '86. 
Hyde, Mrs. Caroline S., '85. 



Ingalls, Mrs. Amelia T. 
Ingalls, Florence, '80. 



'76. Ingersoll, Mrs. Emily M., 

Ives, Mrs. Lydia E., '91. 
Ives, Zayde L., '91. 



'57. 



Jackson, Mrs. Frances C,. '74. 

Jackson, Charles L., '77. 

Jackson, James B., '77. 

Jackson, Julia K. , '77. 

Jackson. Mary M , '80. 
(Mrs. Edwin A. Rasch.) 

Jacobs, Emma A., '91. 

Jacobs, Bertha M., '91. 

James, John, '51. 

James, Mrs. Keturah C, '51. 

James, Adeline E , '77. 

Jenkinson, Henry S., '83. 

Jenness, John S., '76. 

Jenness, Mrs. Lucy M., '76. 

Jewell, Thos. B , '75. 

Jewell, Mark E., '85. 

Jewett, George D., '90. 

Jewett, Mrs. Emily, '90. 

Johnson, Elizabeth, '60. 

Johnston, Mary, '86. 

Johnstone, Mrs. Mary E., '80. 

Jones, Mary J., '48. 
(Mrs. Carter.) 

Jones, Edward D., '56. 
Jones, Mrs. Mary, '56. 
Jones, Mrs. Margaret, '73. 



Jones, 

Jones, 
(Mrs. 

Jones, 
Jones, 
Jones, 
Jones, 
Jones, 
Jones, 
Jones, 
Jones, 
Jones, 
Jones, 

(Mrs 

Jones, 
Jones, 
Jones, 

(Mrs. 

Jones, 

(Mrs, 

Jones, 
Jones, 
Jones, 
Jones, 
Jones, 
Jones, 



56. 



David, '69. 

MaryE. '80. 
H. L. Wilton.) 

Dorothy E., '87 

Charles S., '55. 

Mrs. Adaline, 

Fanny E., '56. 

Richard, '57. 

Mrs. Mary A., '56 

Jane, '57. 

Rebecca, '58. 

Mrs. Angeline M. 

Mary J., '68. 
. J. J. Owen.) 

Edward P., '71. 

Mrs Lucy W., '73 

Myra A., '73. 
W. A. Nye ) 

Delta S. , '74. 
. F. L. Koplin.) 

James M., '74. 
David C, '74. 
Thomas, '77. 
Mrs. Avarino E., 
Albert D., '80. 
Lillian C, '94. 



'61. 



'77. 



i 5 8 



THROUGH FIFTY YEARS. 



Kanady, Wm. S., '64. 
Kanady, Mrs. Caltsta M., '64. 
Kanady, Harriet B., '65. 
Kanady, Sarah C, '65. 
Keller, Charles, '72. 
Kelley, George B., '62. 
Kelley, Mrs. Amelia F., '62. 
Kellogg, Emily C., '61. 

(Mrs. Starr.) 

Kelly, Mrs. Lucy A., '85. 
Kelly, Alice L, '85. 
Kelsey, Frederick E., '76. 
Kendall, Eben W. , '71. 
Kendall, Mrs. Kitty, '71. 

(Mrs. Bartlett.) 
Kendrick, H. L., '82. 
Kendrick, Mrs. Minnie, '82. 
Kennedy, Mrs. Mary E., '91. 
Kent, Adeline S., '84. 

(Mrs. Wm. R. Chittick.) 
Kerr, Mrs. Martha E. H., '74. 
Kerr, Mrs. Polly, '56. 
Ketcham, Mrs. Ellen F., '91. 
Keys, Lizzie, '74. 
Keys, Mary, '74. 

Kimball, Mary J., '46. 

(Mrs. Palmer.) 

King, Robert W., '47. 

King, Mrs. Elizabeth B., '47. 



King, C. Frances, '65. 

(Mrs. C. A. Kent.) 

King, Louis Buhl, '70. 

King, Mrs. Jennie C., '93. 

King, Elizabeth J., '80. 
CMrs. W. J. Milward.) 

King, Beriah, '55. 

King, Mrs. Mary A., '55. 

King, George D., '92. 

King, Mrs. Mary D., '92. 

King, Edmund L. P., '92. 

King, Emlitta, '92. 

King, Anson, '94. 

Kingsbury, Mrs. C. A., '70. 

Kinney, Mrs. Euretta A., '62. 

Kiskadden, Harry S., '89. 

Kiskadden, Mrs. Sadie J., '89. 

Kitchel, Harvey D., '49. 

Kitchel, Mrs. Anna S. , '49. 

Kitchel, Mrs. Harriet T., '77. 

Kitchel, Cornelius, '57. 

Kitchel, Courtney S., '62. 

Knapp, Avery, '65. 

Kniblo, Clara, '58. 
(Mrs. Foster.) 

Knight, Ella J , '55. 
Knight, Stephen H., '90. 
Knight, Mrs. Elizabeth R., '91. 
Knowlton, Mrs. MaryL., '94. 



Lacey, Mrs. Olive B., '74. 
Laible, Mary L., '69. 
Laidlaw, Mrs. Almena E., '94. 
Laidlaw, Lena L., '94. 
Laing, Edward S., '45. 
Lane, Minot T., '49. 
Lane, Mrs. Ruth F., '49. 
Lane, Mrs. Abbie M., '70. 
Lane, George M., '49. 
Lane, Florence E., '74. 

(Mrs. J. A. Dresser.) 

Lane, Mary L., '78. 

(Mrs. R. J. Young.) 

Lane, Ruth Winifred, '78. 

Lane, George E., '87. 

Lane, Jessie B., '89. 

Lane, Adeline, '69. 

Langstaff, Ida M., '85. 
(Mrs. S. E. Jones.) 

Lapham, Noah D., '65. 



Lapham, Mrs. Maria A., '56. 
Latham, Everett B., '91. 
Lathrop, Solomon, Jr., '50. 
Lathrop, Wm. H., '69. 
Lawrence, Mrs. Mary A., '63. 
Lawrence, Gertrude M., '65. 

(Mrs. F. Raymond, Jr.) 

Lawson, Charles F., '91. 
Lawson, George E., 91. 
Lawson, Mrs. Kate C, 91. 
Leach, Mary F., '90. 
Leadbetter, Mrs. Sarah, '93. 
Leavenworth, Frank H., '92. 
Leavenworth, Mrs. Ida L., '92. 
Leavitt, Louise, '93. 
Lee, Henry H , '55. 
Lee, Mrs. Henry H., '55. 
Lee, Philip A., '74. 
Lee, Mrs. Amelia, '74. 
Lee, Emma A., '77. 



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59 



Legg, Eva B., '79. 

(Mrs. Webster.) 

Leggbtt, Edwin, '87. 

Leggett, Mrs. Emma E., '87. 

Leidy, Mrs. Emma B., '88. 

Lemcke, Mrs. Sevilla, '50. 
(Mrs. Peter Klein.) 

Leonard, John J., '52. 

Lerchen, Charles, '75. 

Lerchen, Emily, '76. 
(Mrs. D. Schneider.) 

Lerchen, Edward H., '75 
Lerchen, Mrs. Melissa, '86. 
Lerchen, Edward H., Jr., '90. 
Lerchen, Wm. G., '90. 
Le Roy, Frances A., '92. 
Lewis, Lewis R., '70. 
Lewis, Mrs. Fanny J., '80. 
Liggett, James D., '78. 
Liggett, Mrs. Jeannette N., '78. 
Liggett, Ella M., '78. 
Liggett, Frances, '78. 

(Mrs. H. B. Wey.) 

Liggett, Jeannette C, '78. 

Lillibridge, Mimerva, '58. 
(Mrs. R. G. Crothers.) 

Lillibridge, Mrs. Ruby E., '94. 

Lillibridge, Ruby B., '94. 



Limbright, Maggie, '74. 
Linzee, Mrs. Philomel S., '75. 
Little, Ann, '48. 
Lodge, Albert, '87. 
Lodge, Mrs. Louisa, '80. 
Lodge, Edna F. , '94. 
Long, Charles F. , '74. 
Long, Mrs. Martha M., '74. 
Long, Fanny J., '86. 

(Mrs. D. L. Bobbins.) 

Loose, John F., '59. 
Lowe, Eugene S., '65. 
Low, Lucy, '48. 

(Mrs. Shaw.) 

Luce, Theo. M., '85. 
Luce, Mrs. Mary, '85. 
Ludden, Silas, '45. 
Lyle, Mrs. Susan, '65. 
Lyman, Theo. P., '84. 
Lyon, Wm. F. , '93. 
Lyon, Mrs. Emily J., '93. 
Lyon, Lorena S., '93. 
Lyon, Jay E., '94. 
Lyon, Judson W., '93. 
Lyon, Carroll C, '94. 
Lyon, Mrs. Clara G., '94. 
Lyons, Albert B., '70. 



McAllister, Wm., '76. 
McBain, Wm., '65. 
McCoy, Mrs. Frances A., '78. 
McCoy, Almira, '78. 

(Mrs. J. B. Jackson.) 

McCrae, John, '48. 

McCrae, Mrs. Elizabeth, '49. 

McDonald, Chas. S., '79. 

McDowell, Mrs. Sarah A., '44. 

McEwan, James, '70. 

McEwan, Mrs. Elizabeth G., '70. 

McEwan, David, '78. 

McEwan, Helen, '88. 

McEwan, Jessie, '88. 
(Mrs. Stafford.) 

McGrath, Mrs. Lillie W., '92. 

McGrath, Jessie A., '92. 

McGrath, Grace C, '92. 

McGregor, Mrs. Jane B., '77. 

McGregor, Jennie, '77. 

McGregor, Maggie, '77. 

(Mrs. Clark.) 



McGregor, Mrs. Louisa T., '91. 
McGregor, Mrs. Elizabeth, '94. 
McGregor, Murray, '94. 
McGregor, Ruth E. , '94. 
McGregor, Tracy W., '94. 
McGuire, Margaret, '58. 
McKay, James A., '69. 
McKay, Mrs. Charlotte H., '69 
McKay, Chas. S., '78. 
McKay, Sarah E., '80. 
McKay, Mrs. Margaret, '91. 
McKellar, James B., '91. 
McKellar, Mrs. Flora, '91. 
McKellar, Madge M., '91. 
McKenney, Allen W., '94. 
McKenney, Edith A., '93. 
McKibbin, Eliza J., '47. 

(Mrs. J. A. Roys.) 

McLane, Isabella, '48. 
McLaulin, John D., '75. 
McLean, James, '49. 



i6o 



THROUGH FIFTY YEARS. 



McLeod, Ann, '47. 

McManman, Elizabeth S., '58. 

McMath, Frank, '82. 

McPherson, Eliza, '51. 

McPherson, Pauline, '91. 

Mackenzie, D., '61. 

Mac Kenzie, Mrs. D., '61. 

Maddock, Jabez, '45. 

Madison, Abigail, '54, 

Main, George A., '93. 

Mallory, May C., '86. 

Mallory, Grace E., '86. 

Manton, Walter P., '91. 

Manton, Mrs. Cora W., '91. 

Manton, Walter W., '93. 

Marcy Lorenzo J., '59. 

Margah, Mrs. Frances C., '94. 

Markham, Mrs. Amanda, '74. 

Marsh, Henry D., '81. 

Marshall, Adam, '51. 

Marshall, Mrs. Margaret, '51. 

Marshall, Rachel G , '55. 

Martin, Henry, '50. 

Marvin, Mrs. Eliza R. T , '90. 

Marvin, Frederic, '74. 

Mather. Mrs. Lucy P., '46. 

Mather, Delia, '62. 
(Mrs Edwin Jerome.) 

Matthews, Mrs. Mary, '80. 

Mattison, John, '48. 

May, John, '51. 

Maynard, Ellen J., '66. 

Maynard, Wm., '66. 

Meacham, Mrs. Mary F., '84. 

Mead, Samuel P., '53. 

Mead, Mrs. Elizabeth, '53. 

Mellus, Christian, '51. 

Mellus, Mrs. Cecelia, '51. 

Merrill, Mrs. Louisa J., '77. 

Merrill, Minnie, '77. 

Messinger, Mrs. Mary A., '55. 

Messenger, Mary Jane, '58. 

Messinger, Hiram F., '58. 

Messinger, Mrs. Malvina G., '58. 

Messinger, Harriet J., '62. 
(Mrs. J. E. Scripps.) 

Messinger, Martha E., '62. 
(Mrs. S. T. Kanady.) 

Millard, George, '53. 



Miller, Mrs. Frances, '49. 
Miller, Elizabeth A., '62. 
Miller, Maggie E., '65. 
Miller, Mrs. Deborah, '70. 
Miller, Martha L., '70. 
Miller, Helen M., '78. 
Miller, Alice, '80. 
Miller, Mrs. Sarah E., '89. 
Miller, Ella L. , '94. 
Milligan, Frank, '74. 
Milligan, Mrs. Ada J., '74. 
Miner, Mary L., '91. 
Mitchell, Mary, '48. 
Mitchell, Wm., '86. 
Mitchell, Mrs. Annie, '86. 
Mitchell, Annie, '86. 
Mitchell, Frank, '86. 
Mitchell, Kate, '86. 
Mitchell, Wm. Jr., '86. 
Mitchell, Richard, '88. 
Mitchell, Robert, '88. 
Mitchell, Reuben, '93. 
Mitchell, Mrs. Lois, '93. 
Moir, Mrs. Mary, '64. 
Moir. Jennie M., '65. 
Monds, Mrs. Hetty, '53. 
Montgomery, Emma V., '68. 
Moore, Ida A , '65. 

(Mrs. Arthur A. Nail.) 

Moore, Frank, '73. 
Moore, Mrs. Emily S., '73. 
Moore, Charles W., '91. 
Moore, Mrs. Lucy A., '91. 
Morris, George, '54. 
Morris, Mrs. Amelia, '52. 
Morse, E. Corey, '51. 
Morse, Perley Jr., '55. 
Morse, Jerusha A., '56. 
Morse, Eliza A., '56. 
Morse, Mary L., '56. 
Morse, Mary W., '68. 

(Mrs Van Valkenburgh.) 

Morton, Robert, '85. 
Morton, Robert M., '86. 
Morton, Mrs. Mary B., '94. 
Morton, Henry W., '92. 
Moss, Anna, '94. 
Moss, Florence, '94. 
Motherwell, Isabella, '48. 



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161 



Mott, Mrs. Joanna F., '58. 
Mott, Maria F. , '58. 
Mowrey, Christian, '67. 
Moyer, Mrs. Mattie A., '82. 
Moyer, Arthur W., '94. 
Muldon, Mrs. Elizabeth S. '91. 
Munger, Alonzo T., '65. 
Munger, Mrs. Adaline, '65. 
Munger, Simeon, '65. 
Munger, Ellen J., '65. 



Munro, Alice L., '94. 
Munro, Mary F. , '94 
Munroe, Mrs. Huldah A , '51. 
Murphy, Thomas, '68. 
Murphy, Mrs. Maria T., '68. 
Murphy, Wm. H., '94. 
Murphy, Mrs. Laura H., '90. 
Murray, Mrs Frances C, '51 
Murray, John D ., '94. 
Muzzy, Mrs. Grace E., '91. 



Nall, Henry, '48. 
Nall, James, '48. 
Nall, Mrs. Frances, '53. 
Nall, Mrs. Isabella F. , '63. 
Nall, Mary W., '93. 
Nall, Edwin B, '93. 
Nall, Louis A., '93. 
Nall, Charles J., '57. 
Nall, Mrs. Matilda L., '65. 
Nall, Arthur A. , '62. 
Nall, Wm. A., '94. 
Nash, Mrs. Deborah, '53 
Newhall, Mrs. Eliza, '56. 
Newhall, Lillie E., '82. 
Nichols, Clorinda B., '68. 
Niles, Martha, '54. 



Niles, Mrs. Jane A., '66. 
Niles, Charles, '66. 
Noble, Daniel, '51. 
Noble, Mrs. Julia B., '51. 
Noble, William, '55. 
Noble, Margaretta, '57. 
Noble, Martha E., '85. 

(Mrs. W. H. Wetherbee.) 

Noble, Mary C , '89. 

(Mrs. F. H. Bell.) 

Noble, J. A. Wm., '94. 
Noble, Mrs. Margaret C, 7 94. 
Norris, Philetus W., '70. 
Norris, Mrs. Jane K., '70. 
Norris, Edward A., '70. 
Norton, Charles H., '91. 
Noyes, Seraphina E., '87. 



Oakley, Mrs. Louisa M., '76. 
Oakley, Edwin C, '76. 
Oakley, Ralph W., '77. 
O'Callaghan, Olivia G., '52. 
Ogilvie, David, '81. 
Ogilvie, Mrs. Fanny E., '93. 
Oldfield, James C, '73. 
Oldfield, Mrs. Ann L., '76. 
Olewine, Mrs. Ellen, '77. 
Orlando, James, '93. 
Orlando, Mrs. Mary A., '93. 



Orr, Samuel K., '57. 
Osborn, Sarah E., '48. 
Otis, Mary, '57. 
Oven, George, '50. 
Oven, John, '50. 
Owen, John J., '75. 
Oxnard, John E., '62. 
Oxnard, Mrs. Maria H. P., '65. 
Oxnard, Mrs. Elizabeth G., '93. 
Oxnard, Florence S., '93. 
Oxnard, Mabel, '93. 



Palmer, Calvin D., '58. 
Palmer, Ervin, '58. 
Palmer, Mrs. Emma L., 
Park, Mrs. Sarah, '51. 
Parker, Delia A., '58. 
Parker, Edwin, '67. 
Parker, Abiram, '74. 



Parker, Mrs. Sarah E., '74. 

Parker, Grace E., '74. 
(Mrs Frank W. Fletcher.) 

Parkinson, Mrs. Elizabeth, '86. 

Parrish, Lee, '52. 

Parrisr, Mrs. Hannah I., '52. 

Parshall, Cornelia, '46. 



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THROUGH FIFTY YEARS. 



Parsons, Philo, '45. 
Parsons, Mrs. Ann E. , '45. 
Parsons, Julia N. , '88. 

(Mrs. W. E. Boynton.) 

Parsons, Mrs. Carrie L. B., '93. 

Partridge, Timothy L., '48. 

Patchin, Squire W., '51. 

Patchin, Mrs. Abby B., '51. 

Patchin, Mrs. Adelaide J., '75. 

Patterson, Mrs. Theresa, '94. 

Payne, Douglas, '49. 

Pearl, Harriet L., '65. 
(Mrs. Ashley Pond.) 

Peart, Elizabeth, '55. 
Pease, Thomas H., '65. 
Peck, Albert M. , '88. 
Peck, Mrs. Mattie, '88. 
Pendleton, Edward W., '76. 
Penfield, David O., '56. 
Penfield, Mrs. Sarah, '56. 
Penfield, Cornelia J., 65. 

(Mrs. L. N. Clark.) 

Penfield, Sarah E., '66. 

Perkins, Asa A., '51. 

Perkins, Mrs. Sarah A., '54. 

Perkins, William, '73. 

Perkins, Frank F., '88. 

Perkins, Mrs. Lucy F., '88. 

Perrin, Hiram M., '55. 

Perrin, Mrs. Evelina, '55. 

Perrin, Abiel, '76. 

Perry, Emmet A., '73. 

Perry, Mrs- Maria L., '74. 

Perry, Jennie E. , '80. 
(Mrs. Edsel Ruddiman.) 

Perry, Edith M., '94. 

Perry, Charles A., '90. 

Petty, Wm. H., '76. 

Phelps, Florence A., '83. 

(Mrs. Bailey.) 



Phelps, Mrs. Mary C, '85. 
Phillips, E. D., '62. 
Pierce, Albert D., '57. 
Pierce, Mrs. Caroline B., '65. 
Piggott, James, '89. 
Pixley, John H., '75. 
Pixley, Mrs. Ruby R., '75. 
Plimley, Mrs. Jane, '92. 
Plimley, Jane E., '71. 
Plimley, John F., '80. 
Plimley, Ida, '78. 

(Mrs. Lloyd.) 

Plimley, Carrie E., '91. 

(Mrs. W. H. Travers.) 

Pohlman, Charles, '94. 
Porter, Mrs. Eliza G , '53. 
Porter, Frederic B., '73. 
Porter, Mrs. Helen C, '63. 
Potter, Edward K., '91. 
Potter, Mrs. Sarah G., '91. 
Powell, A. C, '45. 
Powell, Celestia A., '55. 
Preston, Mrs. Julia E., '58. 
Preston, Mrs. Frances F., '71. 
Pritchard, Walter, '55. 
Pritchard, Timothy, '56. 
Prittie, Mrs. Lucia M , '81. 
Prouty, Mrs. Catherine, '59. 
Prouty, William, '65. 
Purdy, William, '47. 
Purdy, Robert, '51. 
Purdy, Mrs. Hannah, '51. 
Purdy, Harriet A., '51. 

(Mrs. Probasco.) 
Purdy, Mary, '51. 

(Mrs. Thos. Anderson.) 

Purdy, Mrs. Mary, '67. 
Purdy, Joseph W., '67. 
Purdy, Ella J., '68. 

(Mrs. Robt. Parsons.) 



Radford, George W., '76. 
Rand, Clara C, '74. 
Randall, Freeman R., '65. 
Randolph, Jane, '55. 

(Mrs. S. A. Passavant.) 
Randolph, Merritt, '57. 
Randolph, Mrs. Emily, '65. 
Rankin, Aggie C, '94. 
Raymond, Francis, '44. 
Raymond, Mrs. Ruth, '44. 



Raymond, Ella W., '70. 

(Mrs. F. Woolfenden.) 
Raymond, Anna K., '77, 
Raymond, Harriet E., '77. 
Raymond, James M., '47. 
Raymond, Mrs. Charlotte, '48. 
Read, Elizabeth A. , '47. 

(Mrs. Allen.) 

Redfield, Alex. H., '49. 
Rees, Mrs. Anna B., '92. 



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163 



Reichrath, Joseph A., '87. 
Reichrath, Mrs. Anna, '87. 
Reid, Neil E., '92. 
Reipf, Mrs. Clara G., '91. 
Reiff, Florence C, '91. 
Rennie, Mrs. F. J., '70. 
Rice, Mary, '47. 
Rice, Mrs. Betsey W., '52. 
Rice, Mrs. Mary, '52. 
Rice, Mary, '52. 

(Mrs. Henry Whiting.) 

Rice, Anna, '52. 

(Mrs. G. W. Barnard.) 

Rice, Harriet, '52. 
(Mrs. C. F. Moore.) 

Rice, Frederick S. , '88. 
Rice, Mrs. Angevine M., '90. 
Richards, James E., '83. 
Richards, Mrs. Wilhelmina M. , '83. 
Richardson, David M., '57. 
Richardson, Mrs. Ellen L., '57. 
Richardson, Laura, '68. 
Richardson, Levi, '61. 
Richardson, Mrs. Jane B., '61. 
Richardson, Adela, '93. 
Richardson, Frances, '93. 
Riddle, Mrs. Mary D., '74. 
Riddle, Florence L., '74. 
Riddle, Rose B., '74. 
Rider, George W., '86. 
Rider, Grace M., '86. 
Rider, Edith J. , '86. 

(Mrs. Scott.) 
Rider, Mabel A. , '86. 
Riopelle, Mrs. Martha J., '77. 
Riopelle, Theresa A., '76. 

(Mrs. "Williams.) 

Roberts, Ann, '65. 
Roberts, Sarah, '75. 
Robertson, Ellen, '58. 

(Mrs. Clark.) 

Robertson, James, '56. 
Robertson, Mrs. Janet, '56. 

Robertson, Margaret, '66. 

(Mrs. Milton Williams.) 



Robertson, Isabella, '73. 

(Mrs. Whyte.) 

Robertson, Jeannette R., '81. 

(Mrs. White.) 

Robinson, John, '58. 
Robinson, Mrs. Ann E., '58. 
Robinson, Martha, '61. 

(Mrs. E. M. Jones.) 

Robinson, Ruth, '62. 

(Mrs. B. B. Allen.) 

Robinson, Martha, '78. 
Robinson, Mary E., '78. 
Robinson, Mrs. Eliza, '82. 
Robinson, Ida, '74. 

(Mrs. E. H. Bronsoo.) 

Robinson, Belle, '77. 
(Mrs. P. B. Harper.) 

Robinson, Mary E., '91. 
Robinson, Mrs. Mary C, '89. 
Robinson, J. M., '87. 
Robinson, Mrs. Laura S., '87. 
Robinson, Edith L., '87. 
Robinson, Edward L. , '87. 
Robison, Mrs. Martha, '56. 
Robison, Mrs. Mary, '56. 
Robson, Mrs. Caroline W., '91. 
Rockwell, Frances J., '74. 
Roe, Emma A., '93. 
Rogers, Fordyce H., '94. 
rohrabacker, mrs. philena, '93. 
rohrabacker, edith m., '93. 
Rolefson, Mrs. Sarah, '53. 
Rolefson, Anna, '53. 
Rolefson, Mary, '53. 
Rose, Melissa, '65. 
Roys, Elizabeth, '70. 
Roys, Ella Grace, '80. 
Roys, Leila M. , '85. 

(Mrs. A. D. Miller.) 

Roys, Sherman A. , '85. 
Rudd, Charles W., '91. 
Rudd, Mrs. Emma T., '91. 
Russell, Mrs. Emily J., '59. 
Russell, Wm. H., '77. 
Russell, Mrs. Jane A., '77. 
Russell, Sarah J., '77. 



Sabin, Orrin T., '58. 
Sabine, Alfred, '54. 
Sabine, Mrs. Martha, '54. 
Sabine, Mrs. Susan, '65. 



Sabine, Mary A. , '65. 
Sabine, Susan, '64. 

Sackett, Sophronia, '45. 

(Mrs. Allen.) 



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THROUGH FIFTY YEARS. 



Safford, Charles L., '59. 
Safford, Mrs. Mary, '59. 
Safford, Lucretia, '65. 
Safford, Samuel L , '12. 
Sandford, Thomas, '52. 
Sandford, Mrs. Mary, '52. 
Sanderson, John P., '91. 
Sanderson, Mrs. Alice G., '91. 
Sanderson, E. Dwight, '91. 
Sawyer, Ellen, '63. 
Sawyer, Winthrop G., '74. 
Sawyer, Mrs. Louisa, '76. 
Sayles, Mrs. L. S., '81. 
Schettler, Fred. W., '92. 

SCHOENBACH, GRACE M., '94. 

Scidmore, Mrs. Sarah M., '94. 
Scott, Mrs. Lydia, '58. 
Scott, Wm. H., '74. 
Scott, Mrs. Sarah E., '74. 
Scott, Joseph A., '92. 
Scripps, Jas. E., '60. 
Scurr, Wm. K., '91. 
Scurr, Mrs. Elizabeth J., '91. 
Sealey, Minnie J., '78. 
Seelye, Mrs. Laura T., '94. 
Selden, Joseph G., '56. 
Selden, Mrs. Laura A., '56. 
Sewall, Elizabeth C, '89. 
Seymour, George G., '53. 
Seymour, Francis H., '65. 
Seymour, Arba M. , '94. 
Seymour, Mrs. Dennie S., '94. 
Shaw, Mrs. Elizabeth T., '48. 
Shaw, David R., '74. 
Shaw, Mrs. Harriet D., '74. 
Shaw, Carrie A., '74. 

(Mrs. G. F. Comstock.) 

Shaw, Mary D., '74. 
(Mrs. Lester McLean.) 

Shaw, James T., '74. 

Shaw, Bessie H. , '88. 

Sheaver, Lavinia, '65. 

Sheldon, B. M., '51. 

Sheldon, Mrs. Electa M., '51. 
(Mrs. John Stewart.) 

Sheldon, Mrs. Henrietta C, '( 
Shephard, Mrs. Helen N., '62. 
Shephard, Ellen A., '69. 
Shephard, Ezra, '77. 



Shephard, Mrs. Henrietta, '77. 

Shourds, Phcebe, '58. 
(Mrs. Frank D. Taylor.) 

Showerman, Mrs. Eliza A., '74. 
Silsbee, Charles E., '57. 
Silsbee, Mrs. Mary E. , '57. 
Silsbee, Caroline E., '58. 

(Mrs. W. P. Horton.) 
Silsbee, Sarah C, '58. 
Silsbee, James D., '65. 
Simpson, Mrs. Mary A., '48. 
Sirard, Louis, '56. 
Sirard, Mrs. Mary, '56. 
Sisson, MaryE., '93. 
Skellenger, Frank C. , '89. 
Skellenger, Nellie V., '89. 
Skinner, Lewis M., '79. 
Skinner, Mrs. Clara S., '79. 
Slade, Mrs. Jeannette, '93. 
Smith, Ralph C, '47. 
Smith, Mrs. Jane, '47. 

Smith, Emma, '65. 

(Mrs. Geo. H. Moore.) 
Smith, Ralph C, '78. 

Smith, Florine T., '80. 

(Mrs. E. W. Stoddard.) 
Smith, Abigail J., '85. 
Smith, Esther A., '51. 
Smith, Phila J., '51. 
Smith, Oliver B., '53. 
Smith, Mrs. Mary E., '53. 
Smith, Mrs. H. C , '58. 
Smith, Wm. L., '77. 
Smith, Mrs. Anna M., '77. 

Smith, Ella M., '77. 
(Mrs. J. H. Avery.) 
Smith, Mary, '85. 
Smith, Virginia F., '89. 
Smith, Jessie C, '91. 
Smith, Forest W., '94. 
Snedicor, Harry T. , '94. 
Snedicor, Mrs. Lillian L., '94. 
Snell, Clifford A., '90. 
Snyder, Rebecca, '75. 
Snyder, Wm. E., '88. 
Southgate, Robert S , '94. 

SOUTHGATE, MRS. CAROLINE A., '94. 

Spark, Joseph E., '75. 
Sparks, Mrs. Ella J., '76. 
Spaulding, Martha L., '80. 



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165 



Spaulding, Ida, '80. 
Sprague, Mary E., '50. 
Standart, Mrs. Mary M., '61. 
Standish, Susan, '58. 
Starling, Adolph F., '71. 
Starling, Mrs. Caroline, '71. 
Stearns, Frederick A., '70. 
Stebbins, Noadiah D., '45. 
Stebbins, Mrs. Emtly, '45. 
Stebbins, Dwight, '51. 
Stebbins, Edward, '51. 
Stebbins, Theodore, '51. 
Stebbins, AbramL., '85. 
Stebbins, Mrs. Adeline E., '85. 

Stebbins, Adele A., '80. 

(Mrs. W. C. Wilson.) 
Steeyens, Sears, '46. 
Stephens, Mrs. Anna, '48. 

(Mrs. White.) 

Stephens, Mrs. Fanny, '89. 
Stetson, Turner, '56. 
Stetson, Mrs. Sarah, '56. 
Stevens, Amos 2nd, '46. 
Stevens, Mrs. Margaret, '50. 
Stevens, Oren, '48. 
Stevens, William F., '48. 
Stevens, Mrs. Betsey, '62. 
Stevens, Charles T., '77. 
Stevens, Mrs. Caroline, '77. 
Stevens, Amos F., '80. 
Stevens, Mrs. Mary P. , '88. 
Stevenson, George E., 65. 
Stewart, Sarah, '58. 
Stewart, Ethleen M. , '94. 
Stocking, William H., '68. 
Stoddard, Olivia, '49. 
Stoddard, Elliot J., '86. 
Stoddard, Mrs. Nella, '90. 



Stoepel, Frederick C, '77. 

Stoepel, Mrs. Anna R., '83. 

Stoepel, William C, '80, 

Stokey, Charles F. , '74. 

Stoll, Carl C, '93. 

Stoll, Otto Albert, '93. 

Stone, Mrs. Margaret C, '80. 

Stone, William H., '91. 

Storey, H. G., '52. 

Storey, Mrs. E. L., '52. 

Strong, William H., '78. 

Strong, Mrs. Florence J. , '78. 

Strong, Mrs. Katherine M., '89. 

Stroud, Mary A., '45. 
(Mrs. H. Warren.) 

Strudley, Walter J., '93. 
Sumner, Frederick M., '48. 
Sumner, Mrs. Elizabeth E., '48. 
Sumner, William P., '91. 
Sumner, Mrs. Mercia M., '91. 
Sumner, Dora M., '91. 
Sumner, John Robert W., '91. 
Sumner, William W., '91. 
Sunbury, Herman B., '48. 
Sunbury, Mrs. Herman B., '48. 
Swift, Frederick W., '48. 
Swift, Mrs. Mary A. B., '56. 
Swift, Mrs. EllaB., '89. 
Swift, Anna K., '74. 

(Mrs. A. J. Burt.) 

Swift, Louise B., '82. 
Swift, Caroline B. , '85. 
Swift, MayR., '89. 
Swift, Bradford H., '89. 
Swift, Stanley H. , '94. 
Swift, Henry F., '69. 
Swift, Mrs. Angelina B., '69. 



Tait, Elizabeth, '47. 
(Mrs. Douglas Payne.) 

Tarbell, John G., '79. 
Tarbell, Mrs. Lydia B., '55. 
Tarbell, Mrs. Frances J., '58. 

Tarbell, Bessie M., '80. 

(Mrs. Edw. Todd.) 
Tarbell, Fanny A. , '74. 

(Mrs. Geo. E. Avery.) 

Tate, Mrs. Mary, '51. 
Taylor, Nathaniel T., '48. 



Taylor, Mrs. Laura N., '48. 
Taylor, Sarah E., '48. 

(Mrs. Edmund Andrews.) 

Taylor, Frances M., '48. 

(Mrs. Edmund Andrews.) 
Taylor, Frank D., '58. 
Taylor, K Terry, '65. 
Taylor, Florence, '77. 

(Mrs. F. W. Eddy.) 

Taylor, Addison G. , '88. 
Taylor, William G. , '88. 



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Taylor, Charles R., '89. 
Taylor, Mrs. Minbtta E., '93. 
Templeton, Jennie, '85. 
Templeton, Kate, '85. 
Ten Eyck, John, '51. 
Ten Eyck, Mrs. Elizabeth, '51. 
Thomas, Eleanor, '51. 
Thomas, George R., '74. 
Thomas, Mrs. Caroline C, '74. 
Thompson, Elizabeth, '48. 
Thompson, Oren C, '51. 
Thompson, Mrs. Alice, '51. 
Thompson, Alice, '55. 

(Mrs. Aloys Bilz.) 

Thompson, Oren C, Jr., '62. 
Thompson, Mrs. Laura C, '52. 
Thompson, Mrs. Zoraida A., '91. 
Tibbitts, Helen, '48. 

(Mrs. Foster.) 

Tibbitts, Mary E., '79. 
(Mrs. A. L. Dutton.) 

Tillman, Mrs. Mary, '48. 
Tillotson, Mrs. Isabella, '93. 
Todd, James, '55. 
Todd, Mrs. James, '88. 
Todd, Fred J., '94. 
Todd, Mrs. Emma W., '89. 
Tompkins, Wm. R., '86. 
Tompkins, Mrs. Mary E., '86. 
Tompkins, Blanche E., '91. 
Town, Reuben, '46. 
Town, Mrs. Mary H., '46. 



Torrence, James, '65. 
Town, Samantha A., '47. 
Townsend, Mrs. Melissa P., '82. 
Tracy, Mrs Alice H. D., '91. 
Tracy, Wm. W., '91. 
Tracy, Harry W., '91. 
Tracy, John E. W., '91. 
Tracy, Katherine S., '91. 
Tracy, Stephen W., '91. 
Tracy, Wm. W., Jr., '92. 
Travers, Wm H., '92. 
Trembly, Elizabeth C, '92. 
Trowbridge, Luther S., '57. 
Trowbridge, Harriet A., '59. 
Trowbridge, Mrs. Mary, '93. 
Trumbull, Edward A., '77. 
Tucker, George, '58. 
Tuthill, Mrs. Susan W., '82. 

(Mrs. James Robb.) 

Tuttle, Mrs. Nancy, '47. 

Tuttle, Helen, '74. 
(Mrs. Adam Simpson.) 

Tuttle, Louisa, '74. 
Tyler, Elisha, '44. 
Tyler, Mrs. Mary G. , '44. 
Tyler, Rowland G., '46. 
Tyler, Olive, '48. 

(Mrs. Albert Miller.) 

Tyler, Charles C, '48. 
Tyler, Mrs. Elizabeth C, '59. 
Tyler, Moses Coit, '48. 
Tyler, Susanna, '48. 
Tyler, Edward S., '55. 



Utley, Mrs. Kate, 



'65. Utley, Mrs. Emma J., '1 

Utley, Stuart Wells, '93. 



Vandenbergh, Ora H., '93. 
Vandermeer, Abraham J., '65. 
Vandermeer, Mrs. Martha L., '65. 
Van Dusen, Charles, '90. 
Van Houten, Mrs. Harriet R., '59. 

(Mrs. Davis.) 

Van Riper, John C, '94. 

Van Riper, Mrs. Catherine N., '94. 

Van Riper, La Motte, '93. 

Van Riper, Arthur H., '93. 

Van Tassell, Fanny, '48. 

Van Tine, Mrs. Almira, '66. 

Van Valen, Mary, '45. 

Van Valen, Sarah, '45. 



Van Zile, Philip T., '92. 
Van Zile, Mrs. Lizzie A., '92. 
Varney, Freeman N., '91. 
Varney, Mrs. Mary L., '91. 
Varney, Almon C, '94. 
Varney, Mrs. Lizzie C, '94. 
Varney, Eva T., '94. 
Varney, A. Chester, '94. 
Varney, Henry R., '94. 
Verney, Wm. J., '76. 
Vreeland, Mary L., '87. 
Voorheis, Jacob E. , '45. 
Voorheis, Mrs. Harriet K., '46. 



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167 



Wagner, Mrs. Charlotte, '51. 
Walcott, Albert, '46. 
Walcott, Mrs. Martha, '46. 
Walcott, Julia, '48. 
Walcott, George, '51. 
Waldo, George H., '80. 
Waldo, Mrs. Georgiana, '80. 
Waldo, Mrs. Mary E., '91. 
Walker, Charles I., '55. 
Walker, Mrs. Mary A., '52. 
Walker, Mary E., '83. 
Walker, Mrs. W., '60. 
Walker, H. W., '59. 
Walker, Harriet, '62. 
Wallace, Nancy, '48. 
Wallace, David, '74. 
Wallace, Sarah J., '80. 
Walmsley, David L., '93. 
Walmsley, Mrs. Katherine, '93. 
Walmsley, Nettie, '93. 
Wanzer, Sarah H., '58. 
Ward, Sarah R., '63. 
Waring, Merritt J. , '54. 
Waring, Mrs. Anna M., '54. 
Warner, Robert W., '44. 
Warner, Mrs. Caroline A.. '44 
Warner, William, '58. 
Warner, Mrs. Harriet B., '58. 
Warner, Mrs. Frances S., '60. 
Warner, Helen F., '59. 
Warner, Harriette A., '59. 

(Mrs. W. M. Bishop.) 

Warner, Martha S., '64. 
Warner, Frances R., '60. 
Warren, Sylvanus, '76. 
Warren, Mrs. Susannah F., '76. 
Warren, J. Edward, '76. 
Waterhouse, Mrs. Julia P., '84. 
Watkins, John, '45. 
Watkins, Mrs. Nancy, '45. 
Watkins, Mary J., '45. 

(Mrs. W. R. Edwards.) 

Watson, Jane, '48. 
Watson, Rubena, '48. 

(Mrs. J. H. Green.) 

Watson, Horace E., '60. 
Watson, Mrs. Elizabeth A., '60. 
Watson, Sarah A., '60. 
Watson, Anna D., '63. 



Watson, Joseph E., '65. 

Watson, Andrew, '64. 

Watson, Isabella, '64. 

Webb, John G., '54. 

Webber, Adolph, '75. 

Webber, Mrs. Christina, '75. 

Welch, Joseph A., '56. 

Weed, Porter L., '65. 

Weed, Mrs. Carrie L., '65. 

Weed, Arthur B., '65. 

Weitzel, Mrs. Julia A., '91. 

Wells, Calvin, Jr., '44. 

Wells, Barent V. B., '52. 

Wells, Edward, Jr., '76. 

Wells, Philip R., '91. 

Wells, Mrs. Maude M., '91. 

Weston, Andrew J., '55. 

Wetherbee, Wm H., '78. 

Wetherbee, Cyrus E., '78. 

Wetherbee, Hannah I., '78. 
(Mrs. B. Thurber ) 

Weymouth, Mrs. Mary A., '58. 
Wheat, Isaac C. V., '88. 
Wheat, Mrs. Adele S., '74. 
Wheat, Luella, '88. 
Wheaton, Mrs. Horace, '48. 
Wheaton, Wm. W., '55. 
Wheaton, Mrs. Maria L. , '55. 
Wheaton, M. Adele, '64. 

(Mrs. B. J. Von Bochoven.) 

Wheaton, Maria L. , '74. 

(Mrs. J. D. Candler.) 

Whitcomb, James M. , '47. 
Whitcomb, Mrs. Lydia A., '45. 
White, Edward H., '58. 
White, Thomas, '60. 
White, Mrs. Electa D., '83. 
White, Wm. H., '81. 
White, Charles S., '91. 
White, Mrs. Eva M., '91. 
White, Ellen S., '94. 
Whiting, Mrs. Theodosia, '87. 
Whitney, Ida M., '74. 

(Mrs. W. H. Holmes.) 

Whitney, Milton J., '91. 
Whitney, Mrs. Elizabeth M., '91, 
Whitney, Robert A. , '93. 
Whittaker, Charles, '76. 
Whittemore, Gideon O., '46. 



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Whittemoke, Mrs. Harriet, '46. 
Whittemore, James, '46. 
Whitwood, Mrs. Caroline E., '52. 
Wickson, Arthur, '71. 
Wickson, Mrs. Emma H., '80. 
Wight, Mrs. Nancy W., '52. 
Wight, Elliott H., '86. 
Wiley, John D., '85. 
Wiley, Mrs. Louie S., '85. 
Wiley, Denny O., '87. 
Wiley, Mrs. Frances M., '87. 
Wiley, Lillian, '94. 
Wiley, Nettie D., '94. 
Wilkes, John A., '62. 
Wilkes, Mrs. Alice, '62. 
Wilkins, Mrs. Maria, '48. 
Wilkins, Alvan, '57. 
Wilkins, Mrs. Charlotte, '57. 

Wtlkins, Alice G., '65. 

(Mrs. J. Gr. Warren.) 

Wilkins, Mary G., '73. 

Wilktns, Fanny, '57. 

(Mrs. W. W. Wheaton.) 
Wilkins, Julia, '61. 
Williams, David, '53. 
Williams, Kate C. , '65. 

(Mrs. M. L. Williams.) 

Williams, Morris L., '67. 

Williams, Richard P., '69. 

Williams, Obadiah G. , '74. 

Williams, Mrs. Ann, '80. 

Williams, Dorothy A., '80. 

Williams, Kate E., '80. 

Williams, Mrs. Frances C, '74. 

Wilner, Augusta, '58. 

Wilson, Thomas, '70. 

Wilson, Annie, '72. 
(Mrs. Chas. Lerchen.) 

Wilson, Mary J., '74. 
Wilson, Joseph C, '75. 
Wilson, Mrs. Philena O., '75. 
Wilson, Chas. R., '78. 



Wilson, Mrs. Mary A., '78. 

Wilson, Mrs. Lulu A., '92. 

Wilson, Charles Haines, '94. 

Wilson, Mrs. Virginia, '83. 

Wilson, William J., '85. 

Wilson, Mrs. Jeante M., '85. 

Wilson, Hamilton T. W., '89. 

Wilton, H. Leonard, '85. 

Winchester, Arthur H., '75. 

Winchester, Mrs. Ella M., '75. 

Winfield, Henry, '80. 

Winfield, Mrs. Sarah, '80. 

Winter, Mrs. Louisa C, '75. 

Winter. Mary I., '74. 
(Mrs. V. Reeves.) 

Wisner, Ralph E. , '92. 

Witmeyer, Israel L., '79. 

Wood, William M., '70. 

Wood, Mrs. Frances C, '70. 

WOODBRIDGE, DUDLEY B., '47, 

Woodbridge, Mrs. Martha J. , '63. 

WOODBRIDGE, MARTHA K., '78. 
(Mrs. Chas. H. Metcalf.) 

Woodbridge, Julia S., '87. 
(Mrs. Chas. H. Moring.) 

Woodbridge, Eva C. , '87. 
(Mrs. W. C. Victor.) 

WOODLEY, J. W., '59 

Woodley, Mrs. J. W., '59. 

Woodruff, W. Warren, '56. 

Woolcott, William, '68. 

Woolsey, Delia E , '65. 
(Mrs. Edw. Alexander.) 

Wormer, Grover S., '63. 

Wormer, Mrs. Maria C, '57. 

Wright, Mrs. Frances C, ! 56. 

Wright, Newell S., '84. 

Wright, Mrs. Emma C. '84. 

Wright, Mrs. Mary E , '90. 

Wright, Laura M., '91. 

Wyman, Mrs. Julia A., '58. 

Wyman, Mrs. Jenny L., '93. 



Yale, Mrs. Mary S., '91. 
Yates, Frank B., '85. 
Yates, Mrs. Florence H., '85. 
Yates, John B., '86. 



Yeager, Mary L., '74. 

(Mrs. Chas. S. Raymond.) 
Yeager, Fanny, '76. 
Young, Mrs. Kate B., '81. 
Young, Robert J., '83. 



ORGANIZATION OF THE CHURCH. 



AT a meeting of persons interested in the formation of a Congre- 
gational Church, in the City of Detroit, held at the City Hall 
on the 8th inst., the Rev. H. L. Hammond was appointed chairman, 
and Samuel Coit secretary. 

On motion voted, That a committee of five be appointed to draw 
up and arrange a Confession of Faith, a Covenant and Rules of 
Practice, to be presented for the acceptance of the meeting. 

The following gentlemen were then appointed said committee : 
S. S. Barnard. C. G. Hammond, Israel Coe, Wm. Cook, James G. 
Crane. 

The meeting then adjourned to convene at the call of the 
committee. 



At an adjourned meeting, held on the same day, the committee 
presented a report which was unanimously adopted. 

The committee were then instructed to convene an ecclesiastical 
council on Wednesday, the 25th of December, inst., to take into 
consideration the propriety of organizing a Congregational Church in 
this city. 

On motion, the meeting adjourned. 

Detroit, 8th Dec, 1844. (Attest) Samuel Coit, 

Secretary. 



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ORGANIZATION OF THE SOCIETY. 



THIS CERTIFIES that at a meeting of the qualified voters of the 
congregation worshiping under the ministration of the Rev. Mr. 
Hammond in the City of Detroit, held pursuant to public notice given 
under the Revised Statutes, part first, title tenth, chapter one, for the 
election of Trustees of a Religious Society, we, the undersigned, Israel 
Coe and James G. Crane, were appointed to preside and receive the 
votes. 

We further certify that C. G. Hammond, Francis Raymond, 
Israel Coe, Elisha Tyler and Lyman Baldwin were duly elected 
Trustees of " The First Congregational Society of Detroit," and that 
on casting lots Elisha Tyler and Lyman Baldwin were declared 
elected for one year, Francis Raymond and Israel Coe were declared 
elected for two years, and Charles G. Hammond for three years, 
respectively, as Trustees of said " First Congregational Society of 
Detroit." 

Given under our hand and seals this 23d day of Dec, 1844. 

In presence of Israel Coe, [Seal.] 

Theo. Williams. James G. Crane, [Seal.] 

STATE OF MICHIGAN, ) 

y ss 
W'ayne County. ° J 

On this twenty- fourth day of December, A. D. 1844, before me, 
a Justice of the Peace in and for said County, personally came, Israel 
Coe and James G. Crane, known to me to be the persons described in, 
and who executed the within instrument, and acknowledged the same 
to be their free act and deed. 

Theo. Williams, 

Justice of the Peace, 

Wayne County, Mich. 



Filed and recorded Dec. 28, 1844, in Book C of Miscellaneous 

Records, page 4. 

J. Griswold, 

Deputy Clerk. 
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TABLE OF CONTENTS. 



Introductory, ...... 7 

Program of Services, .... 11 

Opening Address of Welcome, . . . 17 

Historical Address, ..... 19 

Sermon, ....... 83 

Sunday School and Communion Services, . 93 

Communion Address, Dr. Ballard, ... 94 

Communion Address, Dr. Kitchel, . . 98 

Memorial Address, . . . . 103 

Concluding Exercises, . . . . 139 

Church Officers for First Half-Century, . 141 

Society Officers for First Half-Century, . 142 

List of Members for the First Half-Century, . 147 

Proceedings of the First Church Meeting, . 169 

Proceedings of the First Society Meeting, . 170 



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TABLE OF ILLUSTRATIONS. 



Of the Church Edifices : 

The Third Building, .... Frontispiece 

The First Building, .... 10 

The Second Building, ..... \y 

Of the Pastors: 

Rev. Dr. Kitchel, ...... 5 

Rev. S. M. Freeland, ..... 35 

Rev. Dr. Davis, ..... 81 



Rev. Dr. Ballard, 



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Rev. Dr. Eddy, ..... 101 

Rev. H. L. Hammond, .... 137 

Group of Installed Pastors, . . . 145 

Of Pastors' Wives: 

Mrs. Hammond, . . . . . . 51 

Mrs. Kitchel, ..... 52 

Mrs. Freeland, ...... 53 

Mrs. Davis, ...... 56 

Mrs. Eddy, . . . . .128 

Mrs. Ballard, . . . . . . 130 

Of the Deacons: 

C. I. Walker, ...... 19 

G. M. Lane, ...... 20 

C. E. Silsbee, ...... 24 

F. Raymond, ...... 25 

H. E. Bostwick, ...... 28 

Allan Bourn, . . . . . . 29 

S. M. Holmes, ...... 30 

E. D. Jones, ...... 31 

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TABLE OF ILLUSTRATIONS. 



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Of the Deacons — Continued: 

Frank Milligan, 
A. H. Bigg, 
Thos. Donnelly, 
David Ogilvie, 
H. E. Baker, 
Charles Howard, 
William Warner, 
T. L. Partridge, 
Lyman Baldwin, 
S. S. Barnard, 
E. C. Hinsdale, 

Of the Deaconesses: 

Mrs. Bourn, 
Miss Mallory, 
Mrs. Kiskadden, 
Mrs. Clark, 
Miss Adams, 
Mrs. Wright, 
Mrs. Hall, 
Miss Miller, 
Mrs. Smith, 



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45 
104 
106 
107 
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116 
132 



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59 
62 

68 
69 
70 
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74 

75 



Of the Sunday School Superintendents 

G. M. Lane, 
H. E. Baker, . 
H. E. Bostwick, 
Allan Bourn, 
R. W. King, 
John Davis, 
W. H. Strong, 
Charles Howard, 
C. S. Cushing, 
O. C. Thompson, 
E. C. Hinsdale, 
Group of Surviving Charter Members 



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28 
29 
48 
49 

49 
104 
105 
129 

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